On Wed, May 4 2022 at 12:38:55 PM -0400, Neal Gompa ngompa13@gmail.com wrote:
Why?
It was added to get usage statistics from some Wikimedia site that shut down 5+ years ago, so we haven't used it in a real long time. There's some value to website operators who find it interesting, I suppose, but that doesn't outweigh the disadvantages:
For Chrome, it has to go because of the version 100 Cloudflare trouble.
For WebKit, it's nice to remove it because of persistent troubles with specific websites that require debranding quirks.
For Firefox, I don't know any specific problems, but I wouldn't be surprised if it encounters version 100 trouble too.
For all of the above, it's another data point for fingerprinting users. Admittedly it is not a very big one, but it's better to not have it than to have it.
Michael