Comment by nicbou
5 months ago
The browser has less access to your system, and usually only if you give a specific website permission to use these features. Mobile operating systems are slowly changing that though.
5 months ago
The browser has less access to your system, and usually only if you give a specific website permission to use these features. Mobile operating systems are slowly changing that though.
Have you looked at the latest JS standards?
(and if you haven't... check out the APIs available to the developers/owners of all the websites you browse: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API )
what should imply checking available web apis? the comments is correct, browser can't access your location without explicit confirmation from the user, the same apply for other web apis, or at least mention a bunch of them which you know don't apply instead of linkin MDN
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what is contained in the latest js standard that does let you collect fine grained information of your users without their consent? web apis that have to deal with sensitive data all requires explicit user confirmation to be used
The more access to your system that a web page has, the better it can fingerprint you. All of those ApIs aren’t going to be opt in