Move existing methods of inferring multi-montior support behind permission #123
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This issue is being filed as part of the requested PING privacy review #106
Currently its possible for scripts to infer whether the device has multiple monitors through the existing
screen
APIs. For example,screenX
will be negative if the browser is on a secondary monitor, which is positioned left of the main monitor.If there is going to be a "learn about multiple monitors" permission added to the platform though, this seems like a terrific opportunity to address some of this legacy-fingerprinting surface in
.screen
, and make thescreen
values only describe the current monitor, until thewindow-management
permission is grantedThe text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: