Closed dgstpierre closed 2 years ago
This specification doesn't cover navigator.platform
, and says nothing about its removal.
That said, Chromium is going to "freeze" platform to one of a few values: https://www.chromium.org/updates/ua-reduction#TOC-Reduced-navigator.platform-values-for-all-versions-. Perhaps one day it will make sense to specify that in HTML, if other browser engines do the same.
In fraud detection, the navigator.platform is used very differently than the operating system that is specified in the user agent. Am I understanding correctly that platform is being removed? Spoofing the user agent and hence the operating system is very common. Platform is very helpful in detecting that.