Linux has now hit 3% according to sat counter. It isn’t has obscure as it was in the past and I think it is a lot less of a privacy risk.

I also know a significant number of Linux users who use librewolf. This means that the user share might be a bit higher

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    I’ve wondered about that as well. Especially since websites seem to know which operating system one is running anyway. Sadly I can’t say I know enough about this to have an informed opinion.

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    I’m thinking it should mimic the most common user agent available (guessing Edge’s whatever it is), refreshed on updates. At the very least it should be far easier to configure. As it stands changes in About:config are not recognized.

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    What do you mean by this? It already reports Linux in the navigator UA, are you talking about the HTTP header? If so, I agree with you and I’m hoping to see a change as it is overkill (although there are reasons against namely passive fping protection in some rare cases).

    It causes breakage too, ideally reporting this could influence a change in RFP but there are some blocking issues (things to discuss) at the moment and it is low priority. We could anticipate the change with a patch but we haven’t thought about this yet as we are usually against changing RFP.