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Sephr
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Show HN: Detect which iOS devices are used on your...
There's also navigator.hardwareConcurrency which can tell you the number of CPU threads available to a device.
Unfortunately, it looks like Apple caps this value to 2 on iOS for anti-fingerprinting purposes.
Cyph0n
on Nov 3, 2018
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Sounds more like “fortunately” for iOS users...
Sephr
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Fortunately for privacy; unfortunately for the performance of heavy webapps that may need an accurate hardware.navigatorConcurrency value for CPU scaling.
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How many heavy web apps that would need it actually run on an iOS device?
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Unfortunately, it looks like Apple caps this value to 2 on iOS for anti-fingerprinting purposes.