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		dirtydroog on March 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent It prevents others fingerprinting, not Google though. Isn't there that x-Client-Data header than chrome only sends to Google domains?

jefftk on March 26, 2020 [–]

The X-Client-Data header is documented in https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#variat... and Chrome uses it to run experiments to make the browser better. It's not used for fingerprinting.

(Still speaking only for myself)

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