As it’s Halloween, it’s only relevant that I share a method of covering your browsers identity.
- For MSIE, you must modify the registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
- For Chrome (on Windows, and I assume other OS’s), you can use a startup parameter.
C:\Users\{USERID}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_0; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.21.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.5 Safari/533.21.1"
- For Firefox and other Mozilla based browsers, you can mofiy the configuration in (user.js) or use a variety of add-on extensions, such as:
Interested in knowing your current User-Agent, just visit one of the following:
Many robots and spiders that are used by search engines also identify themselves by their User-Agent, if you see this activity in your logs you can often learn more about it at:
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Happy Halloween!