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Bug 10375 - Please remove language from appVersion. UAs are removing that information to reduce fingerprinting.
Summary: Please remove language from appVersion. UAs are removing that information to ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-08-16 07:51 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:58 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-08-16 07:51:38 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#client-identification

Comment:
Please remove language from appVersion. UAs are removing that information to
reduce fingerprinting.

Posted from: 83.85.115.123
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-25 01:12:04 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Language isn't _in_ appVersion; the user agent is in fact already allowed to return a static string (specifically "4.0"). However, I've added a warning about the fingerprinting issue.
Comment 2 contributor 2010-09-25 01:12:25 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5481.
Check-in comment: Mention the fingerprinting issue on window.navigator
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5480&to=5481