ua-client-hints
Wouldn't it be nice if `User-Agent` was a (set of) client hints? (by WICG)
steganography
Implementation Hide Text In Image with encryption (by subc)
| ua-client-hints | steganography | |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1 | |
| 621 | 46 | |
| 0.3% | - | |
| 5.7 | 0.0 | |
| 4 months ago | over 6 years ago | |
| Bikeshed | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
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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.
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.
- Reducing User-Agent Granularity
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Website Fidelity
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
- Példátlan leállás jöhet a neten, és nem is lesz egyszerű megoldani
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Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox
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
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Google Chrome Update will cause Big Issue For 2 Billion Users
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/
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JP Morgan Chase Bank, or Why Not to Whitelist Operating System User Agents
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)
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Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites
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/
steganography
Posts with mentions or reviews of steganography.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-26.
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Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies
I think that they put the user information in the image using something like this[1].
[1]. https://github.com/subc/steganography
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ua-client-hints and steganography you can also consider the following projects:
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.
notrack-blocklists
stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-fe
ethical-ad-client - Ethical Ads JavaScript client
web - Pi-hole Dashboard for stats and more