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While I don't disagree with the essence of what you're concerned about, I imagine that every new step/functionality in the browser evolution introduces new minutiae that can be used in fingerprinting.

Also, once/if the WebGPU interface expands into more direct GPU functionality, I imagine there will many that will try to use your GPU for crypto mining/etc.

But surely a permission option/prompt will eventually be introduced, but probably not by google in chrome. Anyone know the roadmap/timeline for WebGPU on Firefox and other browsers?



> I imagine that every new step/functionality in the browser evolution introduces new minutiae that can be used in fingerprinting.

No problem; just put such APIs behind a permission and they become unusable for fingerprinting.


If you do that too much, you just train users to enable all permissions all the time without thinking.


If you can query for permission without a prompt appearing that's another data point.




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