[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 255447] ResolutionMediaFeatureEnabled is a no-op

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Sat Apr 15 03:58:20 PDT 2023


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255447

--- Comment #2 from Sam Sneddon [:gsnedders] <gsnedders at apple.com> ---
(In reply to Tim Nguyen (:ntim) from comment #1)
> I wonder if we should reinstate this pref, I assume it was added to prevent
> fingerprinting. Though a better approach to prevent fingerprinting is to
> spoof this + other relevant vectors to 1x.

No, it was added because it provided a path to enabling it in WebKit (versus the ~decade it had been behind a compile-time flag) and because we for a while had quirks that disabled it.

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