Block Browser & OS Information
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I'm using VPN to browse the internet and how do you use Snort and/or pfBlockerNG to keep your Browser & OS information from being detected and displayed as you can see in the image?Do I need and additional plugin or package?
This is from: https://www.iplocation.net/find-ip-address
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You don't. If the IP shown there is your actual WAN address then you are not using the VPN correctly.
You need to use a browser plugin of some sort to hide the data it sends. pfSense cannot alter that.Steve
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The IP is fine, it changes from my ISP, its the browser & OS info I want blocked..
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@nasheayahu said in Block Browser & OS Information:
The IP is fine, it changes from my ISP, its the browser & OS info I want blocked..
The browser and OS information is what's known as your user agent. You can change that to be anything you want with most browsers. Know that by doing that you may not see web pages rendered correctly.
I'm not at all sure why you're worried about your user agent information. The fact that you're using Firefox on a Linux system tells me you're one of many. You can be fingerprinted and uniquely identified, however. Have a look here for more useful information: https://panopticlick.eff.org
Pick your battles. Worrying about this while taking your smart phone (or any mobile phone) everywhere you go is to miss the point.
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@jwj said in Block Browser & OS Information:
Pick your battles. Worrying about this while taking your smart phone (or any mobile phone) everywhere you go is to miss the point.
Yes - someone else gets it ;) QFT
You forgot using CCs, Camera's everywhere. Reward cards.. Toll road electronic passes..
They don't care that anyone "with" the right access "could" know that you bought a six pack of PBR, and snickers bar at 6:13 PM at the QuickyMart at 123 Mainstreet.. As you drove up the I5 and doing 3 miles over the speed limit.. And walked into the store at 6:07 wearing your MAGA sweatshirt.. While you stopped for 2 minutes to look over the craft beer section.
And you texted your GF that had to work late, as you drove over to your buddies house at 456 Other street to drink the beer..
But oh F me if netgate.com can know that I used firefox 82 to access their website ;) using windows 10..
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Thanks everyone your feedback, I appreciate it......
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One of my colleagues at work does the same sort of nonsense.. He disables the e911 assistant on his car system, while his cell phone is sitting right there on the dash.. And his ezpass up there in his window.. He doesn't want the "man" tracking him ;)
Changing your IP might work for circumvention of basic geoip or blacklists. Keep you from getting a dcma notice for downloading some movie via a torrent. But more likely than not it will cause you issues as the IP is a known vpn, and block you from services. Slow down your connection.
People route all their traffic handing over everything they do through some company because they are so worried isp monitoring. But they "trust" this company more? So much so that they are willing to hand over more $ for the privilege of handing them everything. You give all info to this so called good company to "protect" your privacy ;) Because they say they don't log? While that might give you some deniability that no you didn't down the latest blockbuster.
But routing all your traffic through it, and shutting down your internet if it fails.. Oh my gawd - my dns leaked... Shut it down shut it down, I did a query for cnn.com -- that someone might see ;)
While you sit there asking alexa what the weather going to be like.. Surfing midget porn on your phone. But oh yeah F me that my isp that I pay to connect me to the internet knows that I went to amazon ;)
People can not see the forest for the trees. Let me stop this little sapling from burning, while I throw gasoline on the rest of the forest fire..
Better not let netgate.com know I am using comcast for my ISP because that is the IP I come from, better route that traffic through some vpn in Canada.. That will protect my "privacy" <rolleyes> ;)
Sorry but using doh via cloudflare doesn't make you invisible.. It just hands everything over to cloudflare.. etc..
The Genie is out of the bottle, many many many years ago.. Trying to hide your browser user agent doesn't put it back ;)
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@johnpoz said in Block Browser & OS Information:
The Genie is out of the bottle, many many many years ago.. Trying to hide your browser user agent doesn't put it back ;)
What he said!
All @johnpoz has ever asked of the users here is to think a minute before getting in line at the back of the herd.
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Exactly - think it through for a few minutes. What exactly are you accomplishing by hiding such info.. Other than allowing the website your going to properly present their site for the software your using to view it..
If you change it to make it look like Chrome when your using Firefox - but then the site looks like crap.. Who's fault is that?
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There are people here I have come to trust. I value their experience and their judgement. Taking their advice is sometimes not comforting or confirming. It's not like running off to your media bubble. The truth is they have, collectively, a few lifetimes of experience and the wisdom that comes from the scar tissue they have accumulated.
Please also keep in mind you're getting this for free.
