[Public WebGL] GL_RENDERER string needed for performant apps

by kineticfocuson 1/14/14, 5:16 PMwith 1 comments
by Scaevoluson 1/14/14, 6:26 PM

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.