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	qwazix	2011-11-19 , 14:52
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I was really annoyed today when I loaded twitter via 3G, and I saw bytemobile's proxy bar at the top. I haven't seen that bar since my old sharp GX30 and then I got rid of that by removing the proxy from the configuration. Now I checked in the configuration and there is no proxy. I added and removed a false one just to be sure, and changed dns to opendns but without result. Now it really annoys me to have all my traffic go through those guys' proxy and it also annoys me that they mangle webpages in the process. But what the heck, I have a N900, and I can do whatever I want. The relevant stackoverflow thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...vodafone-proxy
suggests that I firewall 1.2.3.0/24:8 Thankfully I have pk and now I am off to the search for the command to block that address. If anyone knows anything more please share.

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	qwazix	2011-11-19 , 15:49
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I realized after calling the customer support that it had to do with my user agent. I downloaded Hideuseragent and after clicking on set the problem went away.

whatsmyuseragent.com reports
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3pre) Gecko/20100723 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8 RX-51 N900

as the user agent both when I click set and remove. I hope I haven't created other problems.

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gtsolis	2011-11-22 , 09:04
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May I ask which country are you in and which APN you have set? Thanks!

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	qwazix	2011-11-22 , 17:44
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Greece
internet.vodafone.gr

It's not the apn in fault. I also thought maybe I was using wap but I wasn't.

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	qwazix	2011-12-15 , 19:46
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Changing user agent breaks ovi store. I called vodafone they didn't even know what they were talking about and told me to call Nokia. I sent the following e-mail to business customer support. If they don't provide a solution I'll switch networks. I can't stand that bar over there. And there are privacy concerns too.

Hello,
I have a Nokia N900 and a Vodafone Bussiness contract with unlimited data since May 2011.

I started seeing the bytemobile bar (see screenshot below) on my N900 some weeks ago. The default N900 web-browser (MicroB) user agent, and other data collected by the bytemobile bug reporting tool are:

Operator: Bytemobile-Greece
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3pre) Gecko/20100723 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8 RX-51 N900
Συσκευή: Nokia N900

However the bug reporting tool does not work and redirects to an empty page at http://bugs.bytemobile.com/?id=395903

The N900 browser is fully capable of displaying full webpages and I do not need neither want any compression or formatting for mobile screens. The settings on the bytemobile bar do not allow me to turn off the service completely. Also I have privacy concerns about all my data going through the bytemobile servers.

If I change the user agent to something else the bar goes away and all pages show up normally. I also do not experience this problem when using other mobile browsers (opera, fennec, helium (webkit))

please revert to the old behavior so I can use my smartphone normally again, or I will be forced to switch networks.

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