From: Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
To: brown121407@member.fsf.org, 40310-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 19:35:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuzxxr4i.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0e7335dd-1c5a-4f2f-98f7-de48234b69fc@localhost>
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Alexandru-Sergiu Marton <brown121407@posteo.ro> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I found out about this problem when going on Rust's website at https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install and they tell me that "It looks like I'm running Windows".
>
> I checked their code and they look for the navigator.platform value, which on IceCat on Guix System is "Win32".
>
> Obviously, Guix System is not Windows. Or is it?
IceCat pretends to be Windows in order to make it more difficult to
fingerprint users based on User-Agent. So this is a feature, not a
bug. :-)
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2020-03-29 7:56 bug#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32 Alexandru-Sergiu Marton
2020-05-30 17:35 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
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