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Increase privacy by optionally overriding language and timezone

Open sed-i opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

The browser currently uses system's settings for the headers. According to coveryourtracks,

HTTP_ACCEPT_HEADERS
Bits of identifying information: 17.73
One in x browsers have this value: 217296.0

Much of this is because of language/country code/timezone.

Would be handy if ddg had an "obfuscation" feature that, when enabled, would set all params to something very common, e.g.

  • en-US
  • America/New_York

Bits of identifying information: comparison to other browsers

ddg firefox focus brave
Headers 17.73 15.41 2.1
User agent 13.82 8.11 11.43

sed-i avatar Jul 14 '22 18:07 sed-i