Client-Hints | Chrome plugin to add Client-Hints HTTP header | HTTP library
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Client-Hints extension for Chrome.
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- Initialize the menu
- Get hint information
- Shows selected entry
- Build device hints .
- Serialize a string representation
- Listen for changes in storage in storage
- Retrieves the clientH hint from local storage .
- Sets a change event on the CHANGENT .
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QUESTION
I understand that making user-agent hints more ambiguous is intended, in part, to make browser fingerprinting harder.
My own (Windows desktop) Chrome sends the headers:
...ANSWER
Answered 2020-Oct-20 at 10:32It seems that it's part of Chromium's GREASEing strategy:
User agents' brands containing more than a single entry could encourage standardized processing of the UA string. By randomly including additional, intentionally incorrect, comma-separated entries with arbitrary ordering, they would reduce the chance that we ossify on a few required strings.
Looking at the Chromium repository, it seems that it was introduced in this commit
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