* bug#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32
@ 2020-03-29 7:56 Alexandru-Sergiu Marton
2020-05-30 17:35 ` Marius Bakke
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From: Alexandru-Sergiu Marton @ 2020-03-29 7:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 40310
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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 version: 68.6.0esr
Cheers,
Alexandru-Sergiu Marton <brown121407@member.fsf.org>
https://brown.121407.xyz
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* bug#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32
2020-03-29 7:56 bug#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32 Alexandru-Sergiu Marton
@ 2020-05-30 17:35 ` Marius Bakke
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Marius Bakke @ 2020-05-30 17:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: brown121407, 40310-done
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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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