Document RenderingServer.get_video_adapter_name() may report a fixed name
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…d name Firefox will always report the user's GPU as a GeForce GTX 980 in an attempt to make fingerprinting more difficult. This is not the case in Chromium-based browsers though.
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| Returns the name of the video adapter (e.g. "GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2"). | |||
| [b]Note:[/b] When running a headless or server binary, this function returns an empty string. | |||
| [b]Note:[/b] On the web platform, some browsers such as Firefox may report a different, fixed GPU name such as "GeForce GTX 980" (regardless of the user's actual GPU model). This is done to make fingerprinting more difficult. | |||
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We'll need to unify the casing of "Web" vs "web", and define some guidelines.
$ rg -g"*.xml" " Web[, ]" | wc -l
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I think at least when referring to Godot's "Web" platform, it should be capitalized, like it is in OS.get_name().
Then maybe when referring to "the web", it can be lowercase.
Here with "the web platform", are we talking about the web as a platform, or Godot's "Web" platform?
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Here with "the web platform", are we talking about the web as a platform, or Godot's "Web" platform?
I'd say the latter, but I don't have a strong opinion on it.
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I guess this can/should be handled in a separate PR anyway, so let's merge this one.
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Firefox may1 report the user's GPU as a GeForce GTX 980 in an attempt to make fingerprinting more difficult. This is not the case in Chromium-based browsers though.
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I've noticed this on 3 different setups (GTX 1080, RX 6900 XT, RTX 4090). I don't know if GPUs older than the GTX 980 are affected by this (probably not). ↩