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Re:Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to l... by sroussey on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:58PM (#48887731)
No, that misses the whole point of content negotiation (for language, et al). In the age of search engines though, different urls are often perferable.
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Re:Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to l... by thaumasiotes on Monday July 13, 2026 @06:45AM (#48890677)
> No, that misses the whole point of content negotiation (for language, et al).

There's been some pushing for browsers to automatically decide what language you want to view a webpage in, and that is even more insane than the User-Agent header is. The correct solution for content that exists in multiple languages is to make each language available at its own URL. Just like I already said. Why in the world would you want to lose the option to select the language you want?

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