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crtasm on Sept 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Ch...

> TBB masks the underlying OS by claiming it is running on a Windows machine.

Note that for some time now TBB on Linux identifies as Linux in both the platform string and the useragent.

Edit: the platform string is mentioned later in the article.

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