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Re:Chrome Ships WebGPU by codedokode on Thursday April 06, 2023 @07:29AM (#35466942)
Interesting. The data shows that WEBGL_debug_rendered_info [1] which allows sites to know the name of your graphic card, is supported almost in 100% of browsers. Seems that better fingerprinting support is really a priority among all browser vendors.

[1] https://web3dsurvey.com/webgl/extensions/WEBGL_debug_rendere...

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Re:Chrome Ships WebGPU by kevingadd on Thursday April 06, 2023 @08:58AM (#35467748)
This is sadly a requirement for the time-honored game development tradition of "work around all the bugs in end user drivers", which also applied to WebGL while it was still immature.

At this point there's probably no excuse for continuing to expose that info though, since everyone* just uses ANGLE or intentionally offers a bad experience anyway.

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