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I'm very skeptical about this, as it seems like Google's just trying to pull another AMP and take control of how advertisers are able to advertise, and since th
by ejj28 6y ago
I'm very skeptical about this, as it seems like Google's just trying to pull another AMP and take control of how advertisers are able to advertise, and since they're a major player in the ad business that should be a big no no.
No user-agent strings is interesting to me, to me they seem like a minor concern privacy-wise, and doesn't a large portion of the web use them to maintain compatibility between browsers, detect your OS for downloads, and etc?
- nebulous1 6y agoYou may find this interesting: https://amiunique.org/ https://amiunique.org/
- roblabla 6y agoUser-agent, in my experience, is mostly misused as an attempt for compatibility, but it really shouldn't be used that way. The proper way to do cross-browser compat is feature testing, as browsers keep adding more features. Google until recently was distributing a different, inferior (at least IMO) version of Google Search to Android Firefox users, based on user-agent. To detect the OS for download, either JS will have to be used, or the new granular Client Hints[0], specifically User-Agent Client Hints[1]. You can use Sec-CH-UA-Platform and Sec-CH-UA-Arch to figure out the OS and CPU Architecture of the client. However, browsers may refuse to honor this, depending on the privacy budget. Seeing User-Agent go away will be a net positive for web compatibility. That it also improves privacy is just a nice-to-have. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Client_hints https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Client_hin... [1]: https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/ https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/