Re: DuckDuckGo Browser Info?

On 6/20/2024 10:08 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:54:22 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> In message <[email protected]> at Wed, 19 Jun 
>> 2024 18:06:44, [email protected] writes
>> []
>>> That's where I use mine, too.  I concurrently use Windows 7 because
>>> quite a few sites block my XP.
>>
>> Does fiddling the user string (I think that's what it's called) no 
>> longer work? I know some sites now ignore that string but instead do 
>> some sort of test. )-:
> 
> I have no idea what what you mean as to "user string".
> 
> I'm one  of the ignorant who pretty much knows only how to turn on a
> PC and hope it does it's thingy by itself.
> 

https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent/

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
       (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/126.0.0.0       # MSEdge

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101         # Seamonkey
       Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:126.0)                         # Bash Firefox
       Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

For the last browser, "about:support" reports the display is actually

    Window Protocol   xwayland

and an older version of Firefox doesn't even report that information.

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In Firefox, in "about:config", create a new item in the preferences.

    general.useragent.override     STRING    KrustyTheClown

restart the browser and retest above. Their website could resort to
functional testing, verifying the Javascript engine version or
similar things, to "compute" what the browser is.

The UserAgent is not the only way to identify a browser. That's
why the browsers fabricate their identity, to functional equivalents.

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The browser across the way   (https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/)   reports:

   Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36
      (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.15.16 Chrome/87.0.4280.144
          Safari/537.36 Konqueror (WebEngine)

and it appears to use a QT5 web engine (so the browser could
be cross-platform, if we could find the Windows version of it).

You need scatology to figure out what that is.

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive,"

   Paul