[Public WebGL] GL_RENDERER string needed for performant apps

[Public WebGL] GL_RENDERER string needed for performant apps(khronos.org)

3 points by kineticfocus 12 years ago | 1 comment

Scaevolus 12 years ago |

As Panopticlick shows, if you can run JS, you can already probably uniquely fingerprint a user.

The GL_RENDERER string will add a few more bits of identifying information, but allows driver specific workarounds for buggy implementations. It's user agent sniffing all over again.

Scaevolus 12 years ago |

As Panopticlick shows, if you can run JS, you can already probably uniquely fingerprint a user.

The GL_RENDERER string will add a few more bits of identifying information, but allows driver specific workarounds for buggy implementations. It's user agent sniffing all over again.