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Wahaha wrote

I'm using "Random User-Agent", which looks to be doing pretty much the same thing.

I went that route after discovering how you can be tracked based on your user-agent and that there's no way to make a meaningful change to it to prevent this. Thus I just change it every couple of minutes.

Some sites get confused by this, but overall it's a seamless experience. Not sure if it's actually preventing tracking, but it sure will defeat naive approaches.

By confused, I mean for example input boxes for forums disappearing, unless you switch to a user-agent they recognize and "support" or similar shenanigans.

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Rambler OP wrote

By confused, I mean for example input boxes for forums disappearing, unless you switch to a user-agent they recognize and "support" or similar shenanigans.

Or sometimes getting mobile versions of sites when browsing on the desktop, because the site thinks you're coming from an Android or iPhone device.

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