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[–] smallpond 1 points (+1|-0)

So you can't effectively identify devices or browsers?

(I'm feeling the weight of my technical ignorance here, though the obvious backdrop is that none of us should ever expect anything we do on a computer to be private.)

[–] Polsaker [OP] 3 points (+3|-0)

Most browsers send some information about themselves. Some only send the name an version of the browser and some send info about the device they're running on (but that's only name and version too, in most cases). It is not possible to identify a device using that, because there might be a lot of devices sending exactly the same string.