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Security and privacy
browser fingerprinting
SHOW HN2018
166points
37comments
#231of 2,155 in 2018
Top 11%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for identifying a remote user's phone model
From 2 comments
Nice, could be useful when I’m trying to answer someones questions about their phone remotely and they don’t know which one they have.
terandle on HNMan, I needed this last summer when I was doing a huge project. Glad someone can benefit from it!
AndrewKemendo on HN
Neat idea
From 1 comment
pretty neat. what would be the best way for me to block this
snacktaster on HN
Objections
Detection is inaccurate; an iPhone X was reported as iPhone 8 Plus
From 2 comments
It recognized an iPhone X as iPhone 8 plus.
Tepix on HNIt seems that beyond the generation it tries to guess the rest based on the screen res changing the font size and DPI via accessibility settings switches between XS and XS max…
dogma1138 on HN
Adds to privacy-invasive tracking and fingerprinting
From 2 comments
But realistically speaking, ad networks are going to add this to their code to gather even more information about you.
jbob2000 on HNI’ve long assumed that websites could tell what kind of device I’m using. Is that not true?
monochromatic on HN
Requests
Ask Apple to fix the leak via bug report
From 1 comment
Would also recommend you file a bug at https://bugreport.apple.com. This is linked directly to their internal bug tracker (Radar) so I can assure you it will be read and triaged…
threeseed on HN
Questions
Why include the lookup table in client code
From 1 comment
Why include the lookup table in the client code? If you're just mapping (CPU, resolution) to a model, why not just send that tuple to your analytics framework and look it up when…
jrockway on HN
How to block this
From 1 comment
pretty neat. what would be the best way for me to block this
snacktaster on HN
Alternatives named
User-agent header and media queries
From 1 comment
You can get some details from the User-Agent header https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/User-Agent You can also get some information from media queries…
newman8r on HN
whatismybrowser.com
From 1 comment
Definitely! I also use https://www.whatismybrowser.com for that kind of thing too.
trent_steel on HN