- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:24 -0500
On 2/7/12 12:34 PM, David Goss wrote: > On 7 February 2012 17:11, Boris wrote: >> This is a case of browser vendors (or at least me with my browser >> implementor had on) thinking that sending this sort of information will >> hurt their users' privacy... > > Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but how? I don't think > anyone's asking for the browser to send anything that can't be > detected client-side and sent to the server anyway. The idea is to prevent pervasive user tracking via fingerprinting. It's actually easy to prevent client-side detection of some of these things; just turn off script execution for the relevant origins. -Boris
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