Re:Conditional JavaScript: Only download when it is appropriate
by Etheryte on Thursday December 17, 2020 @08:13PM
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Rather than looking at this as an enhancement, this raises both of my eyebrows very hard: why would my browser possibly need to tell a webpage all of this information about my system? Of course, it's great for fingerprinting and other shenanigans, but I can't help but feel this is getting absurd. I want my browser to be a webpage reader, not a tool to leak as much data about me as technically possible.
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Re:Conditional JavaScript: Only download when it is appropriate
by lifthrasiir on Friday December 18, 2020 @06:20AM
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For me `navigator.deviceMemory` was the most surprising bit. (Slightly) fortunately though it only returns 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4 or 8 (GiB), so it is not a big information gain compared to other sources (it would be highly correlated to the screen size for example).
Re:Conditional JavaScript: Only download when it is appropriate
by Santosh83 on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:01AM
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The world is shifting to mobile devices where battery life trumps all other considerations, and will do so, until we can come up with some technique to siphon metabolic energy of the body to recharge the battery...
Re:Conditional JavaScript: Only download when it is appropriate
by tored on Friday December 18, 2020 @08:59AM
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I have another crazy idea, how about rendering web pages on the server, that way web pages will not eat up the battery for mobile devices.
And it is probably better if power consumption increases on the server side rather on the client side, because you can locate your server facilities in connection to good clean energy, compared to all client users in the world.