Thanks for clarifying ekr! I hadn't read the full details in the bug and github pages.
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote: > Can you explain why you think this is an increased fingerprinting surface? > The data in question here is the audio level of *incoming* media, and as > the bug indicates, there are other ways to obtain it. > > -Ekr > > > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Tanvi Vyas <ta...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> Is there a pref to turn this added functionality off? That way users who >> are worried about their fingerprint can change the about:config pref? Or >> perhaps it can be disabled when privacy.resistFingerprinting is set to >> true? >> >> Thanks! >> >> ~Tanvi >> >> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Nico Grunbaum <ngrunb...@mozilla.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Background: RTCRtpReceiver's[1] getSynchronizationSources() method >> allows >> > WebRTC applications to monitor volume levels of call participants >> without >> > having to use the costly getStats()[2] call. RTCRtpReceiver's >> > getContributingSources() method enables WebRTC applications to monitor >> the >> > volume level of participants whose audio is being mixed upstream if the >> > mixer includes this data in the RTP extension headers. >> > >> > We intend to ship these interfaces in 59, and they are on nightly now. >> > >> > Tracking: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1363667 >> > >> > [1] https://w3c.github.io/webrtc-pc/#dom-rtcrtpreceiver >> > [2] https://w3c.github.io/webrtc-pc/#dom-rtcrtpreceiver-getstats() >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Nico Grunbaum >> > -. --. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > dev-platform mailing list >> > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >> > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
