Re: [mediacapture-main] Mitigate fingerprinting from OverconstrainedError in gUM(). (#564)

From: Harald Alvestrand via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:19:16 +0000 To: public-webrtc-logs@w3.org Message-ID: <issue_comment.created-465962715-1550747955-sysbot+gh@w3.org> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Saturday, 6 May 2023 21:19:46 UTC

I *still* don't get the point of Jan-Ivar's demo.
Yes, you can tell what devices are present or not.
That's what getMediaDevices() is intended to accomplish. We gave people an API to do this; there is no additional privacy concern with giving them information we've already given them.

What's the problem we're trying to address here?

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