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Statcounter considers me a Win user due to the Win user agent I'm using, this is not a rare behavior in the Linux space..
Out of genuine curiosity, what is the reasoning for using the Win user agent?
it also obfuscates fingerprinting
I thought this may be one of the considerations.
Some sites provide a different behaviour depending on the reported OS
The only thing I can think of is default download links based on your reported OS. What other functionality would be OS gated?
I thought this may be a consideration too, but I would expect it to be a minority of websites that would do this, no?
It's definitely a minority, but easy to fix if you encounter such a site even a single time. There are also some sites which refuse to load on Firefox but work fine if you change the user-agent to Chrome.
Thanks!
Because Linux +firefox is like a fingerprinting wet dream, I may be the only one in my locale. (maybe not anymore, but yeah)
Also Librewolf by default reports Win+Firefox.
Got it, thanks for explaining!
I see you are using ethernet, welcome to Windows %user%!