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A website can get information about your browser and system via several methods:
- user agent,
- javascript attributes (like
navigator.platform), - profiling by testing avalaible browser features (Javascript API for example),
- asking available browser plugins,
- etc.
This website shows some of these: http://www.webreference.com/tools/browser/javascript.html
At least, I would like to know how to spoof the user agent and javascript attributes so that the website cannot detect my OS. I did it once by patching Chromium source code, but I'm looking for an easier way.
I'm interested in solutions for Chromium (Chrome) and/or Firefox.
Totor
Posted 2014-03-26T15:49:49.347
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http://superuser.com/questions/283670/switching-user-agent-in-firefox-4?rq=1 – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2014-03-26T16:00:53.900
@techie007 I already saw all these questions, none consider the javascript attributes. You can check that on the website I mention in my question, it will still detect Linux or Windows even if you change your user agent because that information is available through Javascript
navigator.platform. Hence the "really" in my question title. This is not a simple duplicate. – Totor – 2014-03-26T18:17:51.697Maybe you should have noted you already saw/considered those in your question. Can you explain how your question is actually different than what's mentioned in How can I make my browser lie about my operating system?? To me, they both appear to be about trying to spoof the OS detected by JavaScript. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2014-03-26T19:05:44.397