- From: 신정식, 申政湜 <jshin@chromium.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:56:53 -0800
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: WHATWG Proposals <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
2013/11/27 Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> > On 11/27/13 4:28 PM, Jungshik Shin (신정식, 申政湜) wrote: > >> That is, I suggest that 'navigator.language' always be the UI language of >> a >> web browser. >> > > That's an unacceptable privacy leak from Mozilla's point of view. See > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55366 where we explicitly > switched from that to basing navigator.language on the Accept header. > > Well, the vast majority of users would never touch A-L list. So, the top entry in the A-L list would remain the default value, which is usually the UI language. So, I don't know how much your change helps privacy if revealing the UI language is indeed a valid privacy concern. Jungshik -Boris >
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