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IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: brown121407 <at> member.fsf.org
Subject: bug#40310: closed (Re: bug#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform
 as Win32)
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 17:36:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 40310 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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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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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