Re:Should the Web Expose Hardware Capabilities?
by alkonaut on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @01:11PM
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Browsers should have an entropy budget of just a tiny number of bits. It’s not ok to know my screen resolution, it’s not ok to render fonts and read back the pixels. Exposing more hardware capabilities would be used a thousand times for fingerprinting for every time it’s used for a legitimate purpose (just like the canvas pixel readout).
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Re:Should the Web Expose Hardware Capabilities?
by backing on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:09PM
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You're so right it is messed up !
Some services even refuse to serve if one changes the UA, which is only one tracking capability. Though a blank or custom UA is worse, everyone should spoof the one in the onion browser.
User agent switch is currently "not available" on android Firefox.