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diff --git a/static/faq.html b/static/faq.html index 67e7617e..96586b69 100644 --- a/static/faq.html +++ b/static/faq.html @@ -488,15 +488,18 @@ are designed to detect and handle captive portals which substitute the expected empty 204 response with their own web page.</p> + <p>By default, GrapheneOS leaves these set to the standard four URLs to blend + into the crowd of billions of other Android devices with and without Google + Mobile Services performing the same empty GET requests. For privacy reasons, + it isn't desirable to stand out from the crowd and changing these URLs or even + disabling the feature will likely reduce your privacy by giving your device a + more unique fingerprint. GrapheneOS aims to appear like any other common + mobile device on the network.</p> + <p>These need use a very common domain and URL in order to bypass whitelisting - systems only permitting access to common domains / URLs so a domain like - grapheneos.org would likely be inadequate. GrapheneOS leaves these set to the - standard four URLs to blend into the crowd of billions of other Android - devices with and without Google Mobile Services performing the same empty GET - requests. For privacy reasons, it isn't desirable to stand out from the crowd - and changing these URLs or even disabling the feature will likely reduce your - privacy by giving your device a more unique fingerprint. GrapheneOS aims to - appear like any other common mobile device on the network.</p> + systems only permitting access to common domains / URLs so you may experience + issues if you choose to use connectivitycheck.grapheneos.org instead of the + standard URLs.</p> <p>Standard frozen AOSP user agent for the GET request:</p> <p>Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.32 Safari/537.36</p> |