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by owlish 4313 days ago
The issue is more significant than just changing a simple browser user-agent string. To completely prevent fingerprinting, you must also eliminate all browser differences (e.g. vender prefixes). Additionally, remember that the lack of information can also be information.

Also keep in mind that it's quite difficult to prevent leaking of other information. An example: OS type can be determined from lower-level protocol information like TTL and window size.