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Fedora User Agent extension will modify your User-Agent string in outgoing requests to contain the name of Linux based distribution Fedora.
For the reasons why this extension is auto installed for you, please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1266569 .
v0.0.0.7 – Bumped version only fox fixing the missing files in Web Store
v0.0.0.6 – Modify the WebSocket requests and avoid multiple modifications of the UA by us
v0.0.0.5 – Remove UA quirks for OneNote and Netflix
v0.0.0.4 – Don’t modify the User-Agent string for OneNote
v0.0.0.3 – Extension does not work after the Netflix fix
v0.0.0.2 – Don’t modify the User-Agent string for Netflix
Auto installed without permission. Reported.
i like this extension and don’t know what the big deal is. It just lets the world know this is Fedora!
fedora is good
I see nothing wrong with Fedora being included in the user agent string, as it provides useful metrics. As much as it would be nice if it notified users of installation, it’s easy enough to uninstall if you have privacy concerns.
never installed this
This should not auto-install!
Creates issues with the google search bar on Vivaldi Browser.
Creates issues with the google search bar on Vivaldi Browser.
Statistics are important. Making the argument that this automatic install is “breach of consent” is simply idiotic. This is built in the operating system and chrome just finds it as an extension upon install. Fedora, or google, should not have to ask for a proper “change” in the user agent as they don’t have to do so otherwise but in the TOS upon install.
It may look scary when it shows up as an extension, but all it is is just compensating for the browser not fully developed for Fedora.
Fed users are a peculiar bunch. They get 30000 random apps and hundreds of demons installed with the operating system, but complain when the icon of one of them shows up anywhere on screen. Have you seen what Ubuntu, MacOS and Windows are doing for comparison, ads everywhere, Unkillable apps that popup randomly everywhere.
If I cared about things being installed on my browser without my consent I wouldn’t be using chrome. It’s honestly not that serious lol
Fedora Linux is great!
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I have no problem advertising Fedora Linux. As to the auto installation; all browsers, apps, software do this via either code, extensions, add-ons and/or rule-sets/permissions. At least you see it listed and know that you can remove it if you wish.
I’m too busy to give 1 star ratings to the other 10k packages Fedora installed without explicitly asking me first, so I”m not going to for this one either 😛
It just tells sites you’re using Fedora. Honestly chrome should have the service this provides built in like say firefox, but it doesn’t.
On the one hand you get the fear that advertising the obscure OS you’re using is somehow dangerous.
On the other hand telling random websites you’re using said obscure OS might help them consider porting software to said obscure OS.
Its a free OS, other distributions do far worse in terms of what the consider as “free”
Also, don’t forget Windows 10 pushes way worse junk then just a simplistic browser extension onto your OS
I don’t like that it did not ask me before it installed this extension.
Find it acceptable to be automatically installed. Not diminishing my privacy that much.A useful metric to give out.
I don’t object to the reasoning for the existence of this extension, but I *do* however object to the hidden installation of it. I should be alerted when this extension is enabled, and allowed to opt-in/out as I please. This is a breach of user trust, no matter how benign.
LA VERDAD NO SE QUE FUNCION TIENE ESTA EXTENSION..
Haters gonna hate, I’m happy to represent.
If i can help fedora by installing this extension in my google-chrome, i would surely do that, because i like fedora very much!
I don’t like that it did not ask me before it installed this extension.
To express my dislike of this fact, i rate this extension, even though the extension itself is not to blame for anything.
Besides this, as i use google-chrome auto-sync for extensions across all machines, this extension will even be installed on my windows machines and might thus report wrong usage data anyway.