On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@smedbergs.us> wrote: > On 10/15/2013 1:18 PM, Brian Smith wrote: >> My understanding is that web content should not be able to tell which >> locale the browser is configured to use, for privacy (fingerprinting) >> reasons. > > I haven't heard this rule before. By default your browser language affects > the HTTP accept-lang setting, as well as things like default font choices. > You can certainly customize those back to a non-fingerprintable setting, but > I'm not convinced that we should worry about this as a fingerprinting > vector.
I think preventing fingerprinting at a technical level is something we've lost though we should try to avoid introducing new vectors. As far as JavaScript API features go, I don't think we should vary our offering by locale. E.g. for Firefox OS we want changing locale to just work and not require a new version of Firefox OS. The same goes for a computer in a hotel or hostel or some such. Firefox should work for each locale users might have set in Gmail. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
