very cool. this is why i hate the modern web.

@ariadne anti-fingerprinting feels like a pyrrhic victory to the extent it can be achieved

sure, random webpages probably don't need to know how many cores you have (and thoughtful design could keep this available to those few which maybe do). but the thing that made me conclude this is Accept-Language:, a feature that is intentionally made worse for bilingual users in service of reducing fingerprintability. i think i'd rather have that than a (in practice) false promise about privacy

@whitequark @ariadne At some point we need to start legislating these things instead of trying to patch over them with technology.

Like, there is zero legitimate reason for fingerprinting to uniquely identify individual users at scale. It should simply be illegal. This does not preclude stuff like identifying bots. Ad stuff should just use cookies where allowed.

@lina @whitequark agreed, but also why do websites need to know i have a fucking threadripper
@lina @whitequark like that is my point here, i cannot think of any reason why a website needs to know i have 128 threads
@ariadne @lina @whitequark ah. it's a spam signal. like it cuts into their profits if they treat data-center hardware as likely to have a human sitting in front of it using it as a personal device, so they try to not do that.
@ariadne @lina @whitequark apologies for using a vague "they" there; specifically it cuts into the revenue of ad networks and the various participants in ad ecosystems