cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/50677034

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for recommendations for an Android Fediverse client that does not send user-agent information (device or client details) to servers. Ideally, it should support both Mastodon and Lemmy, or other Fediverse platforms as well.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    How about a Privacy Web-Browser? For example IronFox is a privacy-oriented Firefox fork. By default it does send an user agent string. But you can make it install addons, for example an addon to change the user agent string to something generic (and fake).

    To be honest, this is a very specific method, and I don’t know which problem we’re facing. So this might as well be some A-B problem. So what are you trying to achieve?

    • hardful9856@programming.devOPEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Yes that would be an alternative. But I’m looking for a more user friendly client that could achieve the goal.

      To be honest, this is a very specific method, and I don’t know which problem we’re facing. So this might as well be some A-B problem. So what are you trying to achieve?

      user agent is not essential for the servers, server does not need to know which client or device I am using. So I don’t want any server to fingerprint users.