Fedora User Agent

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Modifies your User-Agent string to contain the name of Fedora Linux distribution.

Latest reviews

• (2023-04-15) Luna: Unnecessary extension installed without user consent that makes you more fingerprintable and breaks some websites.
• (2022-05-04) Harry Kruger: It breaks cloudflare, when I solve the captcha, it just asks me to do it again, and again... disabling this, fixed it.
• (2022-05-02) Angelo Vera: I confirm this extension causes a loop on CloudFlare DDoS protected sites.
• (2022-04-27) A F: conflicts with sites protected by cloudflare since 2022 april
• (2022-04-24) Robert Varga: I wouldn't mind helping out with such an extension...IF...if I would be asked. Silent auto installations of such is not acceptable. Extension reported!
• (2022-04-21) Honza Brázdil: When using this extension, my bank doesn't recognize my computer on repeated wisits and cloudflare thinks I'm a bot an no amount of captcha solves that. Removed,
• (2022-04-19) Jesús Vela: The extension would be fine if it wasn't for the fact that it makes impossible to access sites with cloudfare protection.
• (2022-03-24) Clément Plante: auto installed spyware
• (2021-11-23) Otto: If this extension is activated online editing of documents in Mailbox.org doesn't work. Disabling this extension and document editing works fine again. So removed this extension. What is the meaning of this extension?
• (2021-11-23) Mihai Banu: Useful to increase Fedora's popularity and support for RPM packages across the world
• (2021-11-13) charlie zhou: it does nothing
• (2021-08-11) Luis Grisolia: It's good to be recognized as a Linux Fedora & Chrome user. Very useful in some cases.
• (2021-03-23) Nick: Eh it pops up on the side, so you gotta be blind to not notice it. Im new to Fedora so its whatever and it makes sense.
• (2020-08-18) Neu Zen: Auto installed without permission. Reported.
• (2020-01-18) Eric Lopez: i like this extension and don't know what the big deal is. It just lets the world know this is Fedora!
• (2019-12-19) 荒野无灯: fedora is good
• (2019-12-04) Tyler Bialoblocki: 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.
• (2019-05-12) Sergey Sizov: never installed this
• (2019-03-27) Why is this installed by default? All it does is provide a way of easily fingerprinting your browser and makes it considerably easier to track. don't forget to run this, or it'll come back: dnf remove fedora-user-agent-chrome.noarch
• (2019-03-24) They should have alerted me to it before installing but it makes sense to let websites what OS you are using to make the web app behave better knowing in advance my system parameters but I still think they should alert you to it instead of me just stumbling on it!
• (2019-02-23) Matthew Adamson: This should not auto-install!
• (2019-02-23) Maxime Dirksen: Creates issues with the google search bar on Vivaldi Browser.
• (2019-02-15) Thibault Delattre: Creates issues with the google search bar on Vivaldi Browser.
• (2019-01-29) Johan H.: 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.
• (2019-01-23) 風呂（Ray）: 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.
• (2018-12-13) DropLord Geezy: 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
• (2018-12-08) Yuriy Kazmirchuk: Fedora Linux is great!
• (2018-11-28) Piotr Ochendalski: extra
• (2018-11-20) Let the world know from "where" we are! More Fedora accesses, so (theoretically) more .rpm/support for our lovely distro! :D
• (2018-11-18) Steven H: 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.
• (2018-10-22) Johan Cos: 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 :-P
• (2018-08-20) Hanro50: 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
• (2018-07-24) Tarush Khanna: I don't like that it did not ask me before it installed this extension.
• (2018-07-13) RJKent: Find it acceptable to be automatically installed. Not diminishing my privacy that much.A useful metric to give out.
• (2018-07-08) Keefer Rourke: 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.
• (2018-04-09) Raul Rojas: LA VERDAD NO SE QUE FUNCION TIENE ESTA EXTENSION..
• (2018-02-08) Tim Moor: Haters gonna hate, I'm happy to represent.
• (2017-11-12) fnp: 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.
• (2017-10-24) Aaron Aronoff: I am proud to be part of the FedoraProject.org, so even that mostly the logs of my visit wherever are statistically anonymous, I am glad to differ Fedora, as a popular Linux(R) OS... For example, Chrome OS by default mark itself, as CrOS - and without special extension :) Wondows and Mac too. Why Fedora should be messed with those Ubuntus and Linux Mint-kind of Distros?...
• (2017-10-22) Raymond Wu Won: This auto-enabled extension breaks access to Google Plus. Additionally, what does this mean for privacy re: browser fingerprinting? There's practically no benefit to it.
• (2017-10-16) John Smith: At this writing, the year is 2017. There is NO excuse for automatically installing anything; even functionally insignificant things; without the user's consent. Whatever happened to "Don't be evil."?
• (2017-10-04) Cliphord Rich: I still Love Chrome, Fedora Google and Debian. I Have never had a better set of teachers, guides and a friend when there was none. And so I am thankful this happened because it brought some new fun agents for me to play with!!!!