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Block Audio Fingerprinting: (Default: disabled; prevent fingerprinting via the AudioContext API)

Block WebGL Fingerprinting: (Default: disabled; prevent fingerprinting via the WebGL API)

Block Battery Fingerprinting: (Default: disabled; prevent fingerprinting via the Battery API)

Block Device Enumeration: (Default: disabled; prevent having hardware devices detected via the WebRTC API)

Block Gamepad Enumeration: (Default: disabled; prevent having devices detected via the Gamepad API)

Block Canvas Font Access

Canvas Fingerprint
www.browserleaks.com/canvas

AudioContext Fingerprint
https://audiofingerprint.openwpm.com/

Battery API
http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/04/battery-attributes-can-be-used-to-track-web-users/

webrtc unique devices id's and ip leaks
www.browserleaks.com/webrtc

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Chrome developer console
2. observe the return value of window.navigator.userAgent

Expected behaviour:

Tell us what should happen

window.navigator.userAgent return value should match the extensions User Agent

Actual behaviour:

Tell us what happens instead

window.navigator.userAgent return value is the true browser User Agent. I am explicitly testing this on pages I do not have whitelisted in Random User Agent settings.

System information:

Browser version:

Version 60.0.3112.78 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Extension version:

2.1.7

Console screenshot:

Menu > Settings > More tools > Extensions > Developer mode (check) > Random User-Agent > Background Page

In the add-on settings, I choose "do not sync between browsers."
Next, I note the User-Agents that I want to use.

Sometimes settings saves correct, but after several browser restarts, the settings are skewed to the original settings.

Config:

1. FF 58.0.2 x64 at Win7 SP1 x64.
2. Addons: AdBlock Plus, Browsec VPN - Free and Unlimited VPN, Google Translator, PureURL, YouTube No Buffer (Stop Auto-playing).
   All addons is updated.
3. Last version of Avast.

Console log:
[Random User-Agent] Use fake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3239.551 Safari/537.36

P.S. if you can't repeat this - it does not mean that there is no problem. I can't save settings on two different machines - at work and at home.

random-user-agent It doesn't work on this web page
http://www.runoob.com/try/try.php?filename=try_nav_all
In this web page, it is still my own UA.

Hi.. How can we add a new user agent? Example I want to add chrome updated version how is it possible?

I have a feeling I'm going to feel stupid when I find the answer, but could someone please explain the reasoning behind the options to "Disable agent switching when a website matches the following rules: Internet Explorer 6 / Chrome on Mac / Firefox on Mac / etc."?

I understand that the UA contains browser and OS info, but what does it mean for a website to match that?

@SmudgedMuffin - can you check this file? All is correct?

Can I switch minutes to seconds?
In addition, can you add an X-Forwarded-For page that does not refresh the page automatically?

Why do not you update to the latest UAGenerator.js for the chrome extension?

Steps to reproduce:

1. Use Firefox
2. Show web console
3. Enable dark theme in settings

Expected behaviour:

1. Console text should use theme information and change like other console output.

Actual behaviour:

1. Text stays black and is hard to read/has bad contrast.

System information:

Browser version:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

Extension version:

For example: 2.2.0

Console screenshot:

Any plans to implement those:

• Privacy APIs (toggles): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/privacy
• Random X-Forwarded-For: e.g. like https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/x-forwarded-for-injector/
• General WebApi toggles: e.g. like https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/webapi-manager/?src=search
• Send referers only when staying on the same domain: e.g. like https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/smart-referer/?src=userprofile or the setting "network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy"=1

In progress, maybe coming if commented that extensions like this need those:

• Provide API to get and set override navigator properties: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1414078

Alot of extensions currently, but noone that covers even the minimal webextension stuff, or offers any replacement to the original RAS.

Some sites make checks for headers such as Accept, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, etc and if they don't match the browser's UA it results in captcha requests and other unpleasant things. Would be useful to mask them to the current browser's UA (IE, Firefox, Safari).

Steps to reproduce:

1. set time 1 minute

Expected behaviour:

Tell us what should happen
should save 1 minute

Actual behaviour:

Tell us what happens instead
returns to default 10 minutes

System information:

Browser version:

firefox 57

Extension version:
latest downloaded

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Contrary to Chrome, Firefox appears to automatically overwrite navigator.userAgent with the value that was sent as part of User-agent in the request header.

Based on this, it might be a good idea to remove or deactivate - on Firefox - that option from the settings dialog and the script injection.

Hi,

Is there any (remote!?) chance we can have this awesome add-on for Safari?

Thanks a lot

#I used this plugin during 2 days and noticed that sometimes youtube video pages are not loaded completely when the plugin is active. This doesn't happen all the time, but quite often. Reloading the page doesn't help, but switching off "enabled for this domain" and then reloading it helps and the page loads completely. This is quite inconvenient, I think. When the problem occurs, I see only the top part of the page with youtube logo, and nothing loads at the bottom, no matter how many times I reload the page (F5), but switching the plugin off helps to reload the page completely.

Firefox 57/Windows7

Is there a plan as to how to keep the reported version numbers up-to-date (apart from regular code updates)?

RUA is using for Firefox the versions 50 to 55 and we are currently at 53 for the release and 55 for the nightly, so for the time being it is still not that much of a problem.

For Chrome the situation is already a bit trickier as RUA uses 56 to 58 and we are already at 58 for the release version. The nightly is already at version 60. Furthermore, RUA uses x.x.2xxx as subversion while Chrome switched to 3xxx as of 58.

See prism-break/prism-break#1862 (comment) (although note that I'm not filing this with my PRISM Break contributor hat on). From the README it seems like this extension only changes the UA; is that correct? If so it may be doing more harm than good because by changing the UA but not the APIs exposed in the browser (which would let trackers determine the "real" browser version anyway), this extension may actually be making users more uniquely fingerprintable, not less.

Hi @tarampampam,

there have been quite a few changes since 2.1.7 and I guess it would be nice to have 2.1.8 :)

Running Linux mint cinnamon latest version. Installed Firefox for linux and this plugin (all latest versions). The problem is that the plugin shows "User-Agent (managed by this extension) is not available", but "get new agent" button makes it work. But, after closing Firefox and starting it again, all settings are reset to default and "User-Agent (managed by this extension) is not available" is shown again. I used the same version on Windows 7 and it worked. I thought it may deal with some other plugins, so I disabled all other plugins, but the problem is still there. What can it be?

Подскажите, пожалуйста, как вы реализовали защиту от определения User-Agent средствами JavaScript. Я в Вашем коде нашёл лишь requestHeaders'ы, но они устанавливают лишь отправляемый User-Agent.

When opening github.com with random user agent enabled, there is Content Security Policy error
and a lot of functionality on the page is disrupted. E.g. loading the current commit, switching between HTTPS and SSH cloning or posting comments.

The error occurs even when all other extensions are disabled.

System

Name: Firefox
Version: 60.0.1
Build-ID: 20180516032328
Update-Kanal: release
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Betriebssystem: Linux 4.12.12-gentoo

UAControl - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uacontrol/

Control what gets sent as the User-Agent on a per-site basis.

UAControl is not a WE, can you please implement this?

I think changing the screen size for the browser is really necessary.
I think this will make anonymity become better.
I expect a change from you.

First - thanks for this plugin!

I use the plugin to help add "noise" to fingerprinting/tracking efforts as I browse the web. It would be useful if, in addition to the option to have the agent change after X number of minutes, you could add an option to automatically pick a random user-agent for each new tab that is opened.

Thanks!

Charlie

Steps to reproduce:

Expected behaviour:

Tell us what should happen

Actual behaviour:

Tell us what happens instead

System information:

Browser version:

For example: Google Chrome "52.0.2743.116 m", stable channel

Extension version:

For example: 2.0.1

Console screenshot:

Menu > Settings > More tools > Extensions > Developer mode (check) > Random User-Agent > Background Page

Hello!
As is known since firefox 57 it will go to webextension and then many plugins will stop working. I tried to adapt your plug-in via Chrome store foxified but it does not work although the settings menu opens regularly. Do you plan to adapt your plug-in for firefox?

I'm using Random User-Agent 2.2.5 for firefox 52
and I can not activate Sync extension settings between browsers
When I open firefox Sync extension settings between browsers are in off mode

Issue for #7 (comment)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Configure the extension to return the custom user agent also for Javascript.
2. Go to www.useragents.com

Expected behaviour:

The shown user agent should match the one generated by the extension.

Actual behaviour:

The shown user agent is the actual one.

System information:

Browser version:

Google Chrome 62.0.3175.3 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)

Extension version:

2.1.7

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install the extension under Chrome 59+

Expected behaviour:

The extension should be loaded by Chrome.

Actual behaviour:

The extension gets briefly loaded only to fail with the following message

Other extensions had similar issues (EFForg/https-everywhere#5874) when the signature check failed.

Neither removing and re-installing the extension nor clearing all possible caches helped.

System information:

Browser version: Chrome 60.0.3080.6 dev (64-bit)

Extension version: 2.1.4 (2.1.3 loaded fine)

Console screenshot: N/A

Can you add the option to change the user agent for every new domain.

For example, if you search fore some thing in google you will have a set user agent but, when you visite one of the results you will have a different agent fore that domain.

Thanks

Steps to reproduce:

Expected behaviour:

Tell us what should happen

Actual behaviour:

Tell us what happens instead

System information:

Browser version:

For example: Google Chrome "52.0.2743.116 m", stable channel

Extension version:

For example: 2.0.1

Console screenshot:

Menu > Settings > More tools > Extensions > Developer mode (check) > Random User-Agent > Background Page

hi is There a list or options somewhere to add more user agents I know you can put in more manually but where can I find them ?

Steps to reproduce:

1. Подменить ua
2. https://whoer.net/ru
3. UA и данные JS не соответствуют.

Expected behaviour:

соответствовать

Actual behaviour:

не соответствует

System information:

Browser version:
Google Chrome 55.0.2883.87 m

Extension version:

2.1.0.1

Возникла одна проблема. Включение настройки "Cкрывать настоящий User-Agent при определении средствами javascript (экспериментально)" ломает отображение картинок на некоторых сайтах (например aliexpress), при этом если добавить сайт в исключение проблема не решается пока не отключишь настройку полностью. Отключать ее не особо хочется. Можно ли это исправить?

P.S. Со временем проблема возникает снова даже если отключена соответствующая настройка. Помогает вк/выкл дополнения.

Hi, Can I setting auto change user agent every 30 seconds?

Thanks

Steps to reproduce:

1. Switch the "Enabled on this domain" to off for a given site
2. Browse the site and see the User-Agent in server log : it changes

Expected behaviour:

The User Agent should be constant/probably should be the real one.

Actual behaviour:

I have noticed this because using ttrss, which ends my session with an explicit error message when the useragent changes.

System information:

Browser version:

Firefox 57.0.4 packaged by fedora 26 - x86-64.

Extension version:

2.2.0

Console screenshot:

Menu > Settings > More tools > Extensions > Developer mode (check) > Random User-Agent > Background Page
I don't have this menu.

In a number of Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) threads I have read that randomizing the User Agent might only serve to make you stand out in the crowd. I can't find the specific discussions now, but it values considering whether or not this is the case.

A better strategy might be to set a fixed, most commonly used User Agent.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Change on random user-agent with platform other than the current (if you on linux, change on window)
2. Go to http://browserspy.dk/browser.php
3. See navigator.platform and navigator.vendor

Expected behaviour:

Fake value, not real.

Actual behaviour:

Real value

System information:

Browser version:

Google Chrome "53.0.2785.116 (64-bit), stable channel

Extension version:
latest

Hi .. How can we add a new user agent? I want to add newer chrome versions like "Mozilla / 5.0 (Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X 10_13_2) AppleWebKit / 537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome / 62.0.3202.75 Safari / 537.36" from. and only use the user agent in the txt file. UAE.txt

I am using the Firefox under windows.
This info gives https://amiunique.org/fp as user-agent:
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2; en-PH) AppleWebKit/536.10.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1.5 Safari/536.10.17"
Why there still possible to read Mozilla??

Do you know if Facebook is doing something to block your add-on? For the longest, longest time, my message boxes have been disappearing. One by one, I disabled all add-ons and enabled them again - finally ONLY disabling random user agent on Facebook, and the message boxes come back.

Is this a bug? Is this something Facebook did that you can fix?

Thanks much!

anoncat

I'm noticing that for some values being generated, the range of it goes out of the realm of realistic values. For example, if I have a Mac platform selected, the value for the OS version can show up as "Intel Mac OS X 10_19_2" which is not a real version, or it may end up as a really old version which doesn't match a relatively new browser version.

Also for Mac platforms, it doesn't seem to take into account what type browser is being used for the OS string. Firefox uses dots as separators ("Intel Mac OS X 10.11") while Chrome/Safari uses underscores ("Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6").

Fixing these inconsistencies would result would help in masking some really obvious fake UA settings.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Load a site with a respective content security policy (e.g. github.com).
2. Open the console.
3. Evaluate navigator.userAgent.

Expected behaviour:

The user agent as defined by the extension should be returned.

Actual behaviour:

The injected script fails to execute with the message

Refused to execute inline event handler because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src assets-cdn.github.com". Either the 'unsafe-inline' keyword, a hash ('sha256-...'), or a nonce ('nonce-...') is required to enable inline execution.

and the actual user agent is returned.

System information:

Browser version:

Google Chrome 62.0.3175.3 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)

Extension version:

2.1.7

Hello, can you add a feature that allows input of unlimited custom user agent strings like it's done in this addon: gitlab.com / alexander255 / user-agent-switcher . I personally like yours because it's much lighter but without having above mentioned feature it's limited to only a few UAs. Thanks for reading.

Question: The new version of this plugin requires "Read and change all your data on websites you visit" permissions. For a what?

Answer: Answer: This is needed to protect against User-Agent detection by JavaScript. There's a little bit of mock execution code required to run on each page, you can find the code in file: /js/inject/content.js

Steps to reproduce:

1. close sync extension setting between browsers
2. restart chrome
3. the sync extension setting between browsers are still open

Expected behaviour:

Tell us what should happen
close the sync extension setting between browsers

Actual behaviour:

Tell us what happens instead
the item not close it

System information:

Browser version: Google Chrome "57.0.2987.133"

For example: Google Chrome "52.0.2743.116 m", stable channel

Extension version: 2.1.1

For example: 2.0.1

Console screenshot:

Menu > Settings > More tools > Extensions > Developer mode (check) > Random User-Agent > Background Page

Normally extension works fine, but I want to use it with selenium webdriver (python bindings). Other extension work, but this isn't. I'm getting the following error:

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium-3.4.3-py2.7.egg/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 69, in __init__
    desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium-3.4.3-py2.7.egg/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 98, in __init__
    self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium-3.4.3-py2.7.egg/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 188, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium-3.4.3-py2.7.egg/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 256, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium-3.4.3-py2.7.egg/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 194, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: **Message: unknown error: failed to wait for extension background page to load: chrome-extension://einpaelgookohagofgnnkcfjbkkgepnp//html/background.html
from unknown error: page could not be found: chrome-extension://einpaelgookohagofgnnkcfjbkkgepnp//html/background.html**
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.30.478461 (8b6b2938ac9f3a090d2cf8bafbe8ca73dcbf7945),platform=Mac OS X 10.12.5 x86_64)

Where's the problem and how can I fix this?

Steps to reproduce:

1. Enable Extension
2. Enable "JS" protection
3. navigate to : https://browserleaks.com/javascript

Expected behaviour:

Should see platform modified and also the same stuff when you click iframe window.

Actual behaviour:

See real platform and real UA.

System information:

Browser version:

Chromium 61