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User Preference Media Features Client Hints Headers #15
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See also #20 for the underlying Client Hints infra. |
Off-hand, this essentially just allows sites to avoid saving cookies with data from (Note I'm not considering Client Hint Reliability here, despite that being informatively (I think?) referenced in this spec; that would be another standard to have a position on!) |
This potentially turns active fingerprinting surface into passive fingerprinting surface, which would be concerning, given the sensitivity of some of these properties. |
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FWIW, client hints in general are active fingerprinting surface, not passive, because the server has to actively turn them on by sending the |
Since the browser already knows the user prefers a dark color scheme, fixing this nit could be an implementation detail, couldn't it? I also believe there are ways the site author could already address the white FOUC. |
We need to come to a position on #20 before we can come to positions on proposals that use the Client Hints infrastructure. |
As a heads up I'm currently prototyping adding a new user preference client hint |
(I suppose you mean "will reflect FYI, I have an open PR about adding Privacy Considerations. See WICG/user-preference-media-features-headers#11 for details. |
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https://crbug.com/1207897(Verified [Closed])Anything else we need to know
This has been implemented by Google Search.
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