[GitHub] [incubator-flagon-useralejs] confusingstraw commented on issue #71: Update detect-browser method for Browser Meta Data in Client Logs

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confusingstraw commented on issue #71:
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-flagon-useralejs/issues/71#issuecomment-811136456


   i think they offer two different things. `detect-browser` tells us which browser we're running in (mostly via a set of User-Agent regexs), `fingerprintjs` tries to identify the _individual computer_ that is running the page. it does this by gathering a bunch of runtime info about the browser (which APIs/hardware are available, how do they look, etc.) and generating a fingerprint.
   
   my suggestion before was that we could probably just do our own `detect-browser` work, and remain dependency-free. the `fingerprintjs` mention was a bit tangential, as user identification has been of interest to the project before.


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