On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 7:19 PM Neal Gompa ngompa13@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 1:05 PM Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro@gnome.org wrote:
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.
I disagree. I *deliberately* want Fedora showing up and growing in this manner. If Chrome OS can advertise itself uniquely so it's broken out and people take note enough to test for it, I think it's equally worth it for Fedora to show up. I know it has positively influenced things in Fedora users' favor before in less than obvious ways, so I'd prefer to keep it.
In any case, Alberto Ruiz reached out to Cloudflare via Twitter, and it is now being looked into on their part.
Oh, and just in case you weren't aware: Ubuntu does this too, so all it will look like to website operators is that we disappeared off the face of the earth.
<sarcasm> Yay! </sarcasm>