Comment by torginus
9 hours ago
Huh, I never knew my browser just volunteers my exact hardware specs to any website without so much as even notifying me about it.
9 hours ago
Huh, I never knew my browser just volunteers my exact hardware specs to any website without so much as even notifying me about it.
It doesn’t really. The website thinks I’m on a iPhone 19 pro, although I’m actually on a iPhone SE 1st gen. So it’s off by roughly a decade.
Maybe that's one of Safari's numerous 'quirks' our frontend devs keep bitching about.
Which in this case Im thankful that Apple isn't too keen on following standards like these.
> on a iPhone 19 pro
I wish the website could tell us how life is like in 2027!
The latest Librewolf prompted me to allow the site permission to make a WebGL context. That's what it used for hardware detection.
This stuff is used a lot in browser fingerprinting for tracking purposes. More privacy-focused browsers usually feed randomized info.
I thought that's how airlines do the whole trickery around having different pricing if you access the site from Windows or Mac...