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If websites had to ask permission to enable responsive features like screen size detection, then nobody would use them

Good! Then maybe they'll go back to writing normal html and let my user agent present it to me how I like and how my device best does

If that's how you feel, why not disable CSS?

It was already possible to write CSS that adapts to various screen sizes before CSS became a privacy issue (ie. before CSS 3); except it was called regular CSS, not responsive.

My guess is the difference between "regular CSS that adapts to screen size" and "responsive CSS" is that the former only has a single set of rules while the latter has different CSS rules that get enabled/disabled based on screen size.

Conditional rules -> different content gets loaded -> server gets notified of what rules are enabled -> fingerprinting

Agree. I wish the entire internet looked like GNU documentation page.

AWESOME.

Things went downhill once we started writing HTML which required knowing screen size ;-<

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