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Another notable change from that page: > Froze the user-agent string to reduce web compatibility risk and to prevent its use for fingerprinting
by comex 9y ago
Another notable change from that page:
> Froze the user-agent string to reduce web compatibility risk and to prevent its use for fingerprinting
- citrusui 9y agoThe relevant commit can be found here: https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/commit/4bc237458115ac916f396d7b570e925f0ca9975a https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/commit/4bc237458115ac916f39...
- forgotpassagan 9y agoI love that Apple cares about privacy when just about every other megacorp is a really fancy advertising agency
- eh78ssxv2f 9y agoCan somebody explain how it helps with the privacy? Assuming most of the users of the browser are on the latest version, it implies that majority of users are already sharing the same useragent. How does useragent version # helps with reducing the fingerprint?
- Terretta 9y agoIt’s freezing to a static version, everyone would have the same static (frozen) version from now on, not a build number. So you can’t use it as part of a finger print. https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/commit/4bc237458115ac916f396d7b570e925f0ca9975a https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/commit/4bc237458115ac916f39... Also suggests you’d need to do capability detection other ways in future.