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jackspirou / clientjs

Device information and digital fingerprinting written in pure JavaScript.
http://clientjs.org
Apache License 2.0
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Is clientjs an idled project? #155

Open mohaa7 opened 1 year ago

mohaa7 commented 1 year ago

Is it abandoned?

As the code has not been touched for a year, is it recommended to use in production, in terms of bug reports followup?

Will it have any future major release?

avpaderno commented 1 year ago

If you are looking for a different library, there is the FingerprintJS library, which has an accuracy between 40% and 60%, but it is fully open source. ClientJS itself has been built upon Valve/fingerprintjs, which then evolved into fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs.

jackspirou commented 1 year ago

ClientJS is not built on FingerprintJS, but you should def use FingerprintJS! It's professionally maintained, and does provide good accuracy for an open source, client side only product.

avpaderno commented 1 year ago

I apologize: I was "quoting" the project page, which says Built Upon: and shows three links, including  https://web.archive.org/web/20200714191004/https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs.

I did not mean this library has code that comes from that library, but that the project page has links to other libraries, which I take it as meaning These are other libraries with a similar purpose. If I were to look to alternatives, I would check those three links.

acastro2 commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs just change its license so it can't run in production anymore

avpaderno commented 1 year ago

3.x and lower versions are still licensed under MIT.

peter-wd-1 commented 1 year ago

3.x and lower versions are still licensed under MIT.

is this true? I can use it on production?

mohaa7 commented 1 year ago

I can use it on production?

Changes are not retroactive. The code in version4 is still readble, but not open source anymore! By version3 you will be stuck on an immobile creature!

avpaderno commented 1 year ago

Yes, Branch 3.x is still licensed under MIT. I guess they will not back-port to branch 3.x the changes they introduce in branch 4.x, though.