How to hide "HVM domU" from online detection?

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How to hide from websites that I am using a virtual machine while simple browsing the internet? (I use Qubes HVM, Windows 10)

For example, in Google’s security settings and device lists, it shows that I am logged in from an HVM domU device.

What other signs might websites use to detect that I am using an HVM, and how can I protect myself from it?

The fact that you are using a virtual machine negatively impacts the detection of online antifraud systems, providing external observers with unnecessary information about your system.

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Websites can use the User-Agent HTTP header and various techniques to try to guess your OS. I don’t know what’s your User-Agent? In the default ˋdebian-12-xfceˋ template and using Firefox, I don’t think the User-Agent is enough to tell that I’m using Qubes OS. I think there are other ways to try to guess the OS, but I don’t know if it’s possible to tell I’m using Qubes OS instead of another linux distro.

If you’re logging to Google using Chrome, maybe your browser could be checking this and telling Google? The following topic about Telegram may be related?

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

I use Windows 10 inside Qubes HVM. I’d like to prevent VM detection from Google and others big brothers when I setup my accounts “like default user”. May be I have to change something in registry?

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You’re not “simply browsing the Internet”… you’re using Chrome on Windows to login to your Google account.

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As far as I understand, there is nothing in the User-Agent telling that you use Qubes OS.

What Google tells you when you log with Firefox in a qube using debian or fedora as the template?

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