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Originally Posted by ZR_Yancy
what browser I'm using. I've seen sites that tell you what browser & version I'm using to visit their site & what OS I'm on? Is it possible?
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It is possible. The browser includes certain info about itself in the HTTP header when it sends a request for a given page. When the server receives the request, it can inspect this info to see what kind of client it is dealing with. This info can be useful, often times, to track what your user base is or even custom tailor the page for a particular browser type. If you were to exclude this info from the header or put some bogus info in like 'Mickey Mouse', the remote server would have no way of knowing what you're using. This would stop probably 99% of pages but a clever page can still try to determine what you have by trying to execute certain types of client Javascript to see how your browser responds to it and therefore determine what you're running. That's what I'd do
Regarding headers, the hard part is to get the browser to stop including this info in the header which is not typically something you can do easily. I know Opera used to let users specify which type of browser it should pretend to be. Firefox has a custom header manipulation plugin:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967
If you use FF, you should be able to do defeat most sites.
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