Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web

Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by anth_anm on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:13PM (#19373095)

> The rendering and JavaScript engines do not impact privacy.

Actually they absolutely do. You need to do mitigations against fingerprinting in order to protect privacy.

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by _bxg1 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:52PM (#19373436)

That has to do with what gets sent over the wire, not with rendering content or running arbitrary code

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by recursive on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:13PM (#19374043)

This is kind of puzzling. Fingerprinting (among other things) render to a canvas, and then send the resulting pixel data over the wire. So yes, fingerprinting requires sending stuff over the wire, but it also depends on running arbitrary code and rendering behavior.

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by j16sdiz on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:56PM (#19375024)

Fingerprinting with canvas depends your GPU and font installed. Don't think there are any way out without hurting the rendering performance servery..

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