[PLUG] MSN SideGuide

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Wed Jan 23 09:47:08 UTC 2008


On Jan 21, 2008 7:40 PM, Brent Rieck <bsr at spek.org> wrote:
> kurt braget wrote:
> > Anybody else find "MSN SideGuide" creepy?
>
> Since it's theoretically only for windows machines is is possible to
> fake it out with the user agent header in firefox?  Or is it doing
> something more sophisticated to determine your OS?

Don't!

1) You don't need to, this particular problem only presents itself to
Windows users, not Linux users.  Many people including myself have
confirmed this.

2) User Agent munging considered harmful.  If they want to know what
you're using, why not tell them what you're using or nothing at all?

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca



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