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Firefox Catches Up to Chrome With the Addition of This Feature [WebGPU Support] But Leaves Linux Out (for now) (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] kadup@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Ah, WebGPU, one of the "features" I disable anyway because its a major fingerprinting data point and no website is got any business running code on my GPU

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Why not? It's already executing code on your CPU unless you run noscript or similar...

Are there other features you've turned off? WebRTC perhaps? Others?

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Why not?

If I don't know what your code is doing, and I can't modify it, I don't want it. Are you rendering a cube? Are you mining crypto on my machine? And why would I need GPU-rendering? Webpages should be text, images and hierarchy.

It's already executing code on your CPU unless you run noscript or similar...

That's true! Now guess what extension I'm using

Are there other features you've turned off?

You bet. Some I tolerate not disabled, but spoofed or containerised per site.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I don’t know what your code is doing, and I can’t modify it, I don’t want it.

To be fair, 99% of the world population do not share this viewpoint.

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