User-Agent Client-Hints (UA-CH) are just around the corner. The Chrome teams original plan was to deprecated the user-agent header and have it replaced by UA-CH. The motivation was privacy. The User-Agent string is an abundant source of passive fingerprinting information about our users. It contains many details about the user’s browser and device as well as many […]
‼️ Note: there is an updated version of this article here. User-Agent Client Hints (UA-CH) has been hot in the Chrome camp lately. Motivated by the sudden urge to deprecate the User-Agent request header due to privacy concerns. With Chrome version 84 and higher, the plumbing with delegation through feature- or permission policies is implemented. Delegating UA-CH to a […]
Updated May 2021 to talk about permissions policies in stead of feature policies. Many moving parts related to Client Hints were enabled by default in Chrome version 84. Starting in this version, access to Client Hints can be delegated to 3rd parties. 🎉 Client Hints Client Hints has been here for a while – since Chrome 35 in […]