which browser and version are using? If firefox, the extension you're using to alter the user agent string might not be "trumping" the string stated in preference "general.useragent.override"
Firefox 43 ad I'm using "User-agent switcher." This is new territory for me so I don't totally understand the "string" concept. My User-agent switcher does give me the option to "edit current user agent string or copy it to clipboard." Do I need to put the string "general.useragent.override"in there?
Ummm FF 43 does not have general.useragent.override... have to create it manually, or use a 3rd party app like AdGuard to do the agent and referrer spoofing for you. I think plugins shouldn't be your primary concern... run this test and see how many red lights you get... IP Check Info
There were many red lights (including on plug-ins.) Do you recommend Jondo? Or is there another solution? Also, I checked out AdGuard and didn't see anything about user-agent spoofing?
Don't think it does. Somewhere in earlier FF versions, this specific about:config entry was deprecated.
Plugins are not enumerated via user-agent which appears like this as an example: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7B405 Note there is no plugin data present. It's done via JavaScript. With that realised, if you change your UA-string, you likely break the fingerprint/tracking. Or turn off scripting.
Like Sordid said, plugins enumeration is done with JavaScript and is extremenly trivial to do. Here's test code: HTML: <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript"> window.onload = function() { var s = "<table border=\"1\"><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th><th>Filename</th></tr>"; for(var i = 0;i < navigator.plugins.length;++i) { s += "<tr><td>" + navigator.plugins.name + "</td><td>" + navigator.plugins.description + "</td><td>" + navigator.plugins.filename + "</td></tr>"; } s += "</table>"; document.write(s); } </script> </head> <body> </body> </html> Saving that code to some file (like plugin_test.html) and opening it in your browser will show ur plugins. AFAIK, at least Tor browser does the right thing and disables navigator.plugins enumeration completely so this test code won't show anything.
Plus I like how the TBB pops up a warning when "canvas fingerprinting" is blocked. Its amazing how many places try to do this to their visitors. Whonix/TOR is so much safer for me than anything I could configure on my own. I just have to admit it and stop trying to be a hero with self-configuration. Strong extra point is I blend in by appearing like all other Tor bundle users, which is a nice plus.
