bug#40310: closed (IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32 Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:56:24 +0000 (UTC)

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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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: 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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