Browsers are complicit in browser fingerprinting.
lambalicious @ lambalicious @lemmy.sdf.org Posts 9Comments 834Joined 2 yr. ago
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Pretty much none of the information is necessary to ever render a site properly.
OS and CPU architecture? Ireelevant to whether you are sending a JPG or PNG background. Nearly irrelevant to whether you are using a vertical or horizontal screen (and browsers adverstise that info separately anyway, it's even part of CSS media queries).
Accelerometer and gyroscope? The only reason that could ever be needed for rendering is if the user is moving so incredibly fast that red pixels in their screen would become green due to shifting. And in any time between 2025 and 2999, if you have someone moving that fast, you have worse problems than the site not rendering adequately.
Keyboard layout? If the rendering of a site depends on whether I'm pulsing "g" vs "j" while it loads, then that's quite stupid anyway because that boldly assumes the app focus is on the page.
Proximity sensor? Again: absolutely useless unless rendering environment moving at incredibly superhigh speed (at which the sensor might be reading data wrong anyway).