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bug#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32
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Marius Bakke |
Subject: |
bug#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32 |
Date: |
Sat, 30 May 2020 19:35:41 +0200 |
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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