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Wouldn't it be nice if `User-Agent` was a (set of) client hints?

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2019-12-13 · latest 2024-05-10

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  1. I encourage you to review the decision making and engage in the discussion here: https://github.com/WICG/ua-client-hints
    comment by hoten · 2022-02-15 · in Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox
  2. https://github.com/WICG/ua-client-hints
    comment by madeofpalk · 2021-01-27 · in Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
  3. > https://github.com/WICG/ua-client-hints I don't really understand how this will result in any real difference in privacy or homogeneity of the web. Realistically every browser that implements this is gonna offer up all the info the…
    comment by vxNsr · 2020-03-25 · in Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent
  4. There not phasing out User-Agent strings entirely, they're actually upgrading them: https://github.com/WICG/ua-client-hints It looks like there's more fine grained control in the new version.
    comment by fny · 2020-03-25 · in Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent
  5. …access to user agent details? Why? I should have linked to the top-level repo with the explainer ( https://github.com/WICG/ua-client-hints ) as it's not immediately clear from the spec, but access to the hint values is provided via…
    comment by rowan_m · 2020-01-14 · in Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string
  6. From the article, there is this recent proposal for "UA-hints": https://github.com/WICG/ua-client-hints
    comment by bowmessage · 2019-12-13 · in User Agent Changes