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Re: [mediacapture-main] Deprecate inputDeviceInfo.getCapabilities() for better privacy (#672)

From: Jan-Ivar Bruaroey via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 19:33:15 +0000
To: public-webrtc-logs@w3.org
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> > That API is also a trove of fingerprinting information.
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> But only after the web page starts capturing, so this does not happen for most web pages.

Right, that's all we're talking about. We already did https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-main/pull/632.

> I think it would make more sense to restrict enumerateDevices so that it would only list devices that have been used and not all devices.

How would that "allow a site to enforce its constraints while building a picker"?

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