#3815 NORM Untriag: user-agent string buglet and uniqueness

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#3815: user-agent string buglet and uniqueness
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  Reporter:  jdub         |       Owner:  marco    
      Type:  defect       |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Untriaged
 Component:  web browser  |     Version:           
Resolution:               |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0            |  
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Comment(by HoboPrimate):

 Hm, would it be a good idea for every website be able to know if it's
 being acessed by an XO. I could think of some nasty possibilities.
 The good possibilities that I can think are:
  1. Having websites change into a "slimmer" and more accessible version
  2. Websites with kid-disturbing content could block their access

 But I also believe that this should belong into a more general change of
 web culture, which by having the XO and other low-powerfull laptops out
 there will perhaps help (and general consciousness of those issues seems
 to be developing).

 And creating yet another OLPC system for webdevelopers to target wouldn't
 really scale, I think.

 On the other hand, perhaps the nastiness I suggested above isn't really
 real. I imagine that a website sees the visitor is on a OLPC, and targets
 some security flaw in Browse, or shows real-nasty content. This could even
 build up the idea that the web should be centrally controled/censored.

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