Client Hints

[diracdeltas]

Request for Brave position: Client Hints

• Specification URL: https://httpwg.org/http-extensions/client-hints.html
• caniuse: https://caniuse.com/#search=client-hints
• previous discussions involving Brave members: Client-Hints exposes fingerprint values to additional parties and logging sensitive locations httpwg/http-extensions#767, Disable Client-Hints in brave brave/brave-browser#3539

Notes

Brave is planning on disabling client hints for the reasons outlined in brave/brave-browser#3539 (comment) for now. Further discussion is needed on whether to make a formal objection/statement/etc. on privacy grounds.

[jumde]

Client Hints is now disabled in Brave: brave/brave-core#2205