bug#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32

bug#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32

[Alexandru-Sergiu Marton]

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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

[Marius Bakke]

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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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