Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not that the average user necessarily knows this, but in principle can't the user agent string sent by the browser be spoofed?
Sure, but its not about user agents.
What do you think it's about, then?
Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
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Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#52Does anyone know how the trackers themselves can detect Win10 users, is the Win10 TCP/IP stack sufficiently different to previous versions of Windows that you can fingerprint it?
Presumably just the useragent and the javascript navigator.appVersion.
In the article it talks about trackers blocking access though
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#53Basically M$ adoption of this strategy is the death knell for any semblance of privacy on the PC. It's amazing how far we have come to accepting such draconian measures in order to further marketing. There is still time people, come on over to Linux, the privacy here is still fine and will continue to be fine. And if you come over, then all the desktop software makers will port their software to Linux and all the col…
$? (and no, I dont mean the shell's exit code) The 90s called and would like to have their hatred back. As for privacy issues in your recommendation -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28user_interface%29#Pri...
He said use Linux, not "Ubuntu" There are plenty of linux distro that _do_ respect your privacy.
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#54What does that even mean? How would they ban Windows 10 users from trackers? A bit of more details wouldnt be bad.
Bittorrent clients send something equivalent to a user-agent. I haven't looked into it, but I'd guess that typically includes the operating system?
I don't think it does, it's just a few bytes. There's a client with a different identifier for the major platforms (µTorrent on Mac, Linux, Android IIRC) but that doesn't include the OS version.
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#55Basically M$ adoption of this strategy is the death knell for any semblance of privacy on the PC. It's amazing how far we have come to accepting such draconian measures in order to further marketing. There is still time people, come on over to Linux, the privacy here is still fine and will continue to be fine. And if you come over, then all the desktop software makers will port their software to Linux and all the col…
$? (and no, I dont mean the shell's exit code) The 90s called and would like to have their hatred back. As for privacy issues in your recommendation -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28user_interface%29#Pri...
Good job that people have a choice of desktop environment.
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#56Ask HN: Could Win10 data leaks be managed by some kind of firewall or parental-control software? I mean, if we know what sites are being accessed, just block those sites.
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#57Has there been any response or explanation from Microsoft yet with this situation?
Does it matter?
If there's enough pressure for MS to respond, they'll spew some bullshit to placate the masses. What they won't do is change their spying ways.
Besides, it's probably not even all Microsoft's fault. I bet governments are pressuring them to spy on us on their behalf.
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#58Basically M$ adoption of this strategy is the death knell for any semblance of privacy on the PC. It's amazing how far we have come to accepting such draconian measures in order to further marketing. There is still time people, come on over to Linux, the privacy here is still fine and will continue to be fine. And if you come over, then all the desktop software makers will port their software to Linux and all the col…
Windows 7 is the last Microsoft OS I will run. Never used it for work anyways and very rarely game anymore. Maybe I can even find a way to run BNet on Linux. You can have all the freedom you want. Nobody is forcing you to use those programs.
According to this if you're careless about installing all windows updates 7 and 8 will do the same:
http://www.hakspek.com/security/updates-make-windows-7-and-8...
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#59Has anyone compiled a privacy checklist for Windows 10? What settings people have determined are best to use? I was somewhat forced to do the upgrade and didn't have the time to explore all settings (also they got more confusing since Windows 8).
There were like 3-4 open source projects posted here (yeah, people don't get that the point of publishing an open source project is to actually collaborate) aiming at making privacy on Windows 10 one click away. As far as I can tell, they all did a miserable job and blocked some legit features (like Windows Update) and domains and never updated their projects once we told them about the legit features they're blocking.
So, there's plenty of checklists out there, but none of them is actually useful at the moment.
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#60Has anyone compiled a privacy checklist for Windows 10? What settings people have determined are best to use? I was somewhat forced to do the upgrade and didn't have the time to explore all settings (also they got more confusing since Windows 8).
Here's what I did: 1) turned off everything in the Customization section at install 2) Used http://pxc-coding.com/portfolio/donotspy10/ 3) Used https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking Then, I installed a traffic monitoring tool - and surprise surprise - I still found some stuff trying to randomly connect to Microsoft's servers, similarly to what Peter Bright from Ars discovered (btw, "telemetry" can only be f…
I wonder why you're getting downvoted.