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Implement Global Privacy Control (only in nightly) #11917

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pes10k opened this issue Sep 29, 2020 · 0 comments · Fixed by brave/brave-core#6743
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Implement Global Privacy Control (only in nightly) #11917

pes10k opened this issue Sep 29, 2020 · 0 comments · Fixed by brave/brave-core#6743
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OS/Android Fixes related to Android browser functionality OS/Desktop privacy privacy-pod Feature work for the Privacy & Web Compatibility pod QA/No QA/Test-Plan-Specified release-notes/exclude

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pes10k commented Sep 29, 2020

Several browsers and publishers are working on a new Global Privacy Control spec, that will be announced next week. The full implementation in Brave would be:

  1. add a Sec-GPC header, with the value always being 1
  2. add a navigator.globalPrivacyControl end point in the DOM, that always returns true (boolean, not string)

No UX or shields integration is needed. No state is set or maintained.

Ideally it would:

  1. always be enabled for nightly builds
  2. be default disabled in all other channels
  3. have a flag so that non-nightly builds could enable too once this makes way to other channels

3 is not needed though if it makes the implementation more difficult

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