A website can get information about your browser and system via several methods:
- user agent,
- javascript attributes (like
navigator.platform
), - profiling by testing avalaible browser features (Javascript API for example),
- asking available browser plugins,
- etc.
This website shows some of these: http://www.webreference.com/tools/browser/javascript.html
At least, I would like to know how to spoof the user agent and javascript attributes so that the website cannot detect my OS. I did it once by patching Chromium source code, but I'm looking for an easier way.
I'm interested in solutions for Chromium (Chrome) and/or Firefox.
navigator.platform
. Hence the "really" in my question title. This is not a simple duplicate.