Martin… once more, you really want to cease.
What’s with folks such as you who’re supposed to offer data and analysis about it, can’t simply go to Courageous-Core repository, and discover the milestone for the RELEASE variations, that may let you know what PRs had been merged to X and Y releases?
Proper now there’s milestone:”1.62.x – Launch #2″ however it doesn’t take greater than 1 second to take away the ‘#2’ and test all of the PRs that had been uplifted to 1.62.x launch.
Filter by Aggressive, as a result of in the event you tried to analysis, you’d know the PR wasn’t named strict, however ‘Conceal Aggressive Fingerprinting Safety behind a flag’
And achieved? you possibly can simply see how the PR was merged to Steady so… it’s out there, however once more, since IT WAS HIDDEN IN A FLAG, which anybody can disable or allow, which means the characteristic will slowly be set to Disable within the DEFAULT choice.
You possibly can simply see that in the event you clicked round the entire thing that began with this: https://github.com/courageous/brave-browser/points/31229
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Fast observe: The next principally ensured that Aggressive Fingerprinting is being eliminated by way of BraveAggressiveModeRetirementExperiment.
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Yeah, a variation. Now go to courageous://model and search “aggressive” once more and you’ll discover BraveAggressiveModeRetirementExperiment both :Disabled or :Enabled.
Once more… how onerous is that to know?
You possibly can even see how the variations are set by Courageous in https://github.com/courageous/brave-variations/blob/fundamental/seed/seed.json and yow will discover the BraveAggressiveModeRetirementExperiment there.
and you’ll discover
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{
“experiments”: [
{
“feature_association”: {
“disable_feature”: [
“BraveShowStrictFingerprintingMode”
]
},
“title”: “Disabled”,
“probability_weight”: 100
},
{
“title”: “Default”,
“probability_weight”: 0
}
],
“filter”: {
“channel”: [
“NIGHTLY”
],
“min_version”: “120.1.63.110”,
“platform”: [
“WINDOWS”,
“MAC”,
“LINUX”,
“ANDROID”
]
},
“title”: “BraveAggressiveModeRetirementExperiment”
},
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So the Variation continues to be just for Nightly, however doesn’t imply the consumer can’t simply go to chrome://flags/#brave-show-strict-fingerprinting-mode and manually disable it.
In truth, when a characteristic is being modified by a variation and never set fully as default it’ll have an asterisk within the flags
for instance
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Present Strict Fingerprinting Mode
Present Strict (aggressive) choice for Fingerprinting Mode in Courageous Shields – Mac, Home windows, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, Fuchsia, Lacros
#brave-show-strict-fingerprinting-mode
Default (Disabled*)
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So, there’s a distinction. The PR hides the characteristic as a flag, however doesn’t imply the flag’s default is being set to ‘disabled’ as default, it’s the variation the rationale it’s hidden in Nightly, however which means tomorrow they will begin hiding the characteristic by default, and if folks wish to preserve the Strict mode out there and break their WebGL content material, they will all the time set the flag to Enabled.
Once more… how onerous is to know all this? it solely took 3 seconds to analysis this, after which some other characteristic dealt with the identical, would be the similar: flag, variations, or a characteristic set fully to disabled or enabled with out variation.
Why do I’ve to clarify you this? possibly it’s time so that you can simply publish simply what Courageous defined of their weblog, or analysis about it if you wish to know “It’s nonetheless out there on my facet”.
Additionally, you haven’t talked about it’s hidden in a flag, you’ve got by no means talked about anyplace, which tells me you in all probability comprehend it however refuse to say it as a result of “REMOVAL” sounds nicer than “HIDDEN” for clicks.
Courageous’s name it elimination, as a result of in all probability the primary plan was to take away it, then they modified it to only a flag for now, it doesn’t matter, it is best to learn about it if you wish to opinionate about it, it doesn’t matter what Courageous needs to do sooner or later about it.
