Huh, I never knew my browser just volunteers my exact hardware specs to any website without so much as even notifying me about it.
Huh, I never knew my browser just volunteers my exact hardware specs to any website without so much as even notifying me about it.
It couldn't guess any of my hardware specs when I opened the page in Safari on my Mac.
It doesn’t really. The website thinks I’m on a iPhone 19 pro, although I’m actually on a iPhone SE 1st gen. So it’s off by roughly a decade.
> on a iPhone 19 pro
I wish the website could tell us how life is like in 2027!
Maybe that's one of Safari's numerous 'quirks' our frontend devs keep bitching about.
Which in this case Im thankful that Apple isn't too keen on following standards like these.
This stuff is used a lot in browser fingerprinting for tracking purposes. More privacy-focused browsers usually feed randomized info.
The latest Librewolf prompted me to allow the site permission to make a WebGL context. That's what it used for hardware detection.
I thought that's how airlines do the whole trickery around having different pricing if you access the site from Windows or Mac...