GNU bug report logs - #40310
IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32

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Package: guix;

Reported by: brown121407 <at> member.fsf.org

Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:36:17 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>

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bug#40310; Package guix. (Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:36:17 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: Alexandru-Sergiu Marton <brown121407 <at> posteo.ro>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:56:24 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi,

I found out about this problem when going on Rust's website at https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install and they tell me that "It looks like I'm running Windows".

I checked their code and they look for the navigator.platform value, which on IceCat on Guix System is "Win32".

Obviously, Guix System is not Windows. Or is it?

IceCat version: 68.6.0esr

Cheers,

Alexandru-Sergiu Marton <brown121407 <at> member.fsf.org>
https://brown.121407.xyz
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From: Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>
To: brown121407 <at> member.fsf.org, 40310-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 19:35:41 +0200
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Alexandru-Sergiu Marton <brown121407 <at> posteo.ro> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I found out about this problem when going on Rust's website at https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install and they tell me that "It looks like I'm running Windows".
>
> I checked their code and they look for the navigator.platform value, which on IceCat on Guix System is "Win32".
>
> Obviously, Guix System is not Windows. Or is it?

IceCat pretends to be Windows in order to make it more difficult to
fingerprint users based on User-Agent.  So this is a feature, not a
bug.  :-)
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