bug#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32

[Marius Bakke]

Alexandru-Sergiu Marton <brown121407@posteo.ro> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I found out about this problem when going on Rust's website at 
> https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install and they tell me that "It looks like 
> I'm running Windows".
>
> I checked their code and they look for the navigator.platform value, which on 
> IceCat on Guix System is "Win32".
>
> Obviously, Guix System is not Windows. Or is it?

IceCat pretends to be Windows in order to make it more difficult to
fingerprint users based on User-Agent.  So this is a feature, not a
bug.  :-)

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