webgl renderer privacy (opens in new tab)

WebGL exposes the details of your graphics hardware (specifically, the string that describes the rendering engine) in 2 ways. There are three levels of protection that browsers have taken to protect this data. gl.getParameter(gl.VENDOR) and gl.getParameter(gl.RENDERER) - these are the 'simple' names. At some point in the past, someone argued that it wasn't enough information, and therefore we have a second API let ext = gl.getExtension('WEBGL_debug_renderer_info'); and then gl.getParameter(ex...