Fancy privacy in Chrome? Yeah, we'll get to that after we start app detection says Google

Posted by bob on Dec 8, 2019 6:49 PM EDT
The Register; By Thomas Claburn
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Privacy developers concerned over Chocolate Factory plans. A nascent web API called getInstalledRelatedApps offers a glimpse of why online privacy remains such an uncertain proposition. In development since 2015, Google has been experimenting with the API since the release of Chrome 59 in 2017. As its name suggests, it is designed to let web apps and sites determine whether a corresponding native app is installed on a user's device.…

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