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This extension was installed without my consent. Seeing as this extension greatly improves fingerprinting surface, might I suggest you query users prior to installation?

When opening a WebSocket connection, the original User-Agent header is sent (matches navigator.userAgent, doesn't include "Fedora"). The same might apply to EventSource connections.

Many sites (including ours) use the User-Agent for PHP session security; if it doesn't match, the session is invalidated.

I didn't consent to having this extension installed in my browser. Why did this get surreptitiously installed?

When going to https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in with extension enabled I'm stuck on

screen with 503 error returned from Gitlab saying Javascript has to be enabled. As soon as the extension gets disabled proper Sign in form is presented.

Additional information: This extension stopped working after upgrading to Chrome 100.

This extension causes a loop in CloudFlare DDoS protection system, making it impossible to access the sites.

The extension is leaking memory. When the browser starts it's ok with usage 18.5MB of RAM (5.8MB for JavaScript) but it increases with every page. After several minutes the usage increases to 26.4MB of RAM (10.4MB for JavaScript).

After all day usage I saw it to be more than 56MB of RAM (3x increase in memory usage) which is a lot for basic changing of the user agent.

I'm attaching two screenshots from fresh start and after 20 minutes of browsing.

I happened to notice that at least on Firefox downloaded directly from Mozilla, my user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:100.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/100.0 without mentioning Fedora, so I think it could be useful for the extension to be also available on Firefox or Firefox store.

When accessing the user agent via navigator.userAgent it does not report Fedora (it does correctly report Fedora in the http header of outgoing requests).

Hello,

I build linux kernel 4.15-rc2 but I am getting error message that Fedora user agent has crashed when I start google Chrome.

So I am not able to use Google Chrome on new linux kernel.

How can I fix this issue.

Thanks,

Jaswinder Singh Rajput

Now that we have official chromium packages in Fedora repos, it would be nice if this package supported it.

It looks like the agent is changed, even if the agent has already been updated:

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Fedora; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/...

compare to another call:

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/...

This is probably related with a http redirect.

I have given 1 star review that's very bad; this plugin is doing advertising only without anything else

install without consent is very bad!!!

I have reported abuse and call for more can report there

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/report/hojggiaghnldpcknpbciehjcaoafceil?hl=en-US&gl=US