IsChinaByEmoji – A way for browser to detect if a user is from China

3 comments

• ValdikSS 1 hour ago

      - /** Determine if the current device is from mainland China using Emojis
      - * If the *Taiwan flag* characters cannot be displayed in color (rendered as black and white letters or not rendered at all), it indicates a device more likely to be from mainland China.
      - * To avoid false positives, *smiley face* will be used as a comparison:
      - * If the device cannot even render regular Emojis in color (such as Linux without colored Emoji fonts,
      - * a browser with fingerprint protection enabled), it returns null to indicate that it cannot determine the source, rather than falsely reporting true. */
• someonebaggy 42 minutes ago
  Canvas pixel readback is a common fingerprinting vector, isn't it blocked behind a permission popup?
• CatMustard 53 minutes ago
  Location via censorship detection, clever!