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by jfb 4943 days ago
That you're running Ubuntu is 99% of the entropy. Nobody uses Ubuntu (for certain values of nobody). The fonts you have installed. The versions of the plugins you have installed. &c.

I've long wanted to build a WebKit based browser that simply lies in response to all of those evil questions. Add it to my backlog of Important Projects, I guess.
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jiggy2011 4943 days ago
But then a lot of websites wouldn't work properly because they are pushing IE specific CSS (or whatever) on you.

I haven't installed any weird versions of plugins, I assumed they would be tied to whatever chrome version I have.

And Ubuntu isn't rare enough for me to be the only person using it (especially on EFF).

Going to have to experiment with this a bit.

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