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It doesn’t specifically target Asahi Linux and/or Firefox but reduces resolution on ARM devices. That behavior and assumptions made through a user agent string
by jug 3y ago
It doesn’t specifically target Asahi Linux and/or Firefox but reduces resolution on ARM devices. That behavior and assumptions made through a user agent string may be debated but that’s another topic.
- mrweasel 3y agoExactly, the post even mentions that Chromium pretends to be AMD64 to get around the limitation. In most cases this detection is "good enough", but with Asahi a new edge case has emerged. Ideally the device would be able to tell the server about it's capabilities, but that could be seen as an invasion of privacy and could quickly turn into a new metric for profiling internet users across sites.
- nicce 3y ago> Ideally the device would be able to tell the server about it's capabilities It is not technically privacy issue if it "tells" about them, by having freedom to tell what it wants. If the information is mandated with remote attestation and server can force it and otherwise not work properly, then it becomes privacy issue.