Comment by michaelbuckbee
3 days ago
The underlying intent here (figure out if it's an existing customer of our locally installed apps when they visit our website) doesn't seem bad, but I certainly dislike both the hosts file and localhost detection options.
I'm curious if there's a "good" way to do this.
I dislike the intent too. A website should simply not be able to see which apps I've got installed. Imagine Facebook doing stuff like this in order to know what ads they should serve.
Fairly certain they already do, atleast on mobile.
Just do it by asking users to log in. Am I missing something here ?
No that seems like the reasonable expectation to me too.
Next they'll be installing a font like TeamViewer did... https://community.teamviewer.com/English/discussion/124507/s...