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Firefox addon - Rotates complete browser profiles ( from real browsers / devices ) at a user defined time interval. It includes many extra privacy enhancing options

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2014-07-22 · latest 2017-04-21

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  1. …used to give extra privacy and messing with fingerprinting. For example random agent spoofer: https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer
    comment by bigbugbag · 2017-04-21 · in Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives
  2. There is in fact already an extension which will randomly change the browser user agent. https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer
    comment by Survey_Sez · 2016-01-11 · in YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 for 2 weeks
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    Random Agent Spoofer Firefox Addon for Browser Privacy
    story by dannysu · 2015-11-29 · 2 comments
  4. You use a random user agent. I use this one for example: https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer
    comment by rdtsc · 2015-11-23 · in Baffling Web Trackers by Obfuscating Your Movements Online
  5. Have a look at Random Agent Spoofer https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer (beyond spoofing the User Agent, you can fine tune a series of privacy settings). By the way, Panopticlick is outdated (is it even maintained anymore?).…
    comment by brave · 2015-08-07 · in Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers
  6. …- disable Flash and Java plugins - choose a standard UA, screen size, and timezone (e.g., https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer ) - tweak other settings based on testing at https://panopticlick.eff.org
    comment by logn · 2014-12-20 · in Opt out from online behavioral advertising
  7. …https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random-agent-... (git version is newer https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer ) Always in conjunction with the classic recipe ABP+NoScript.
    comment by XzetaU8 · 2014-07-22 · in The Web Never Forgets: Persistent Tracking Mechanisms In The Wild