web vs ua-client-hints

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Pi-hole Dashboard for stats and more (by pi-hole)

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pi-hole.net

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ua-client-hints

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

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wicg.github.io

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web		ua-client-hints
	Project
118	Mentions	13
1,918	Stars	576
0.9%	Growth	1.9%
7.4	Activity	4.4
6 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
PHP	Language	Bikeshed
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

web

Posts with mentions or reviews of web. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-06.

Any plans for pihole 6.0?
2 projects | /r/pihole | 6 Jul 2023
Confusing issue with pi-hole
2 projects | /r/pihole | 23 Jun 2023

Web Interface v5.20.1
Pi-hole FTL v5.23, Web v5.20 and Core v5.17 released
8 projects | /r/pihole | 28 May 2023
Settings page is not showing up
1 project | /r/pihole | 9 Apr 2023

If you are, this is a known issue, already fixed on development.
Core update v5.16.2 to address Gravity resource exhaustion.
1 project | /r/pihole | 27 Mar 2023
DNS Issues
3 projects | /r/pihole | 21 Feb 2023

Web Interface v5.18.4
Why does my temperature unit preference get changed from Fahrenheit back to Celcius every time I update pihole?
1 project | /r/pihole | 8 Feb 2023

This behavior will change and will always use the value set by the user (https://github.com/pi-hole/AdminLTE/pull/2516).
Netdata release 1.38.0
9 projects | /r/linux | 6 Feb 2023

We monitor Pi-hole, the Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application via its PHP API.
Pi-hole Web v5.18.2 and Core v5.15.1 released
2 projects | /r/pihole | 23 Jan 2023

remove hard-coded /admin/ path by @gstrauss in #2461
Programming Pi-Hole from the Ground Up
5 projects | /r/pihole | 19 Jan 2023

The web interface (https://github.com/pi-hole/AdminLTE).

ua-client-hints

Posts with mentions or reviews of ua-client-hints. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-19.

Website Fidelity
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Oct 2022

The Client Hints specification covers a lot of this already - https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/#content-adaptation-u... ... DPR, width, and viewport-width are already available in some browsers. Hopefully other hints will be available soon.
UA Gotta Be Kidding
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2022
Példátlan leállás jöhet a neten, és nem is lesz egyszerű megoldani
2 projects | /r/hungary | 19 Feb 2022
Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2022

I encourage you to review the decision making and engage in the discussion here: https://github.com/WICG/ua-client-hints
W3C User Agent Client Hints
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2022
Google Chrome Update will cause Big Issue For 2 Billion Users
2 projects | /r/programming | 24 Dec 2021

chrome is starting to implement UA-CH, which splits up user agent info into individual headers sent by the client: https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/
JP Morgan Chase Bank, or Why Not to Whitelist Operating System User Agents
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2021

As a Firefox/FreeBSD user occasionally annoyed by this nonsense, but not being knowledgeable about modern web standards evolution, I wonder if https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/ will fix this by killing User-Agent headers.
W3C User-Agent Client Hints ( SEC-CH-UA-* HTTP Headers)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Oct 2021
Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites
1 project | /r/programming | 14 Aug 2021

ua-ch might reduce the amount of data browsers send, though it's gonna take a while to move away from regular user agents: https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/
Mozilla alters stance on User-Agent Client Hints from “non-harmful” to “harmful”
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jul 2021

There is a JS companion to this proposal that splits up the information in a similar way
https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/#interface

What are some alternatives?

When comparing web and ua-client-hints you can also consider the following projects:

Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements

chromium-legacy - Latest Chromium (≒Chrome Canary/Stable) for Mac OS X 10.7+

docker-pi-hole - Pi-hole in a docker container

stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-features - Disallow features that aren't supported by your target browser audience.

AdminLTE - AdminLTE - Free admin dashboard template based on Bootstrap 5

evercookie - Produces persistent, respawning "super" cookies in a browser, abusing over a dozen techniques. Its goal is to identify users after they've removed standard cookies and other privacy data such as Flash cookies (LSOs), HTML5 storage, SilverLight storage, and others.

FTL - The Pi-hole FTL engine

ethical-ad-client - Ethical Ads JavaScript client

Pi-Hole-for-WSL1 - Ad-blocking DNS server for Windows • Unbound pre-configured • Deployment ready in minutes • Does not require hypervisor/docker

stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-fe

PADD - PADD (formerly Chronometer2) is a more expansive version of the original chronometer.sh that is included with Pi-Hole. PADD provides in-depth information about your Pi-hole.

hosts-blocklists - Automatically updated, moderated and optimized lists for blocking ads, trackers, malware and other garbage