Chrome ignores Windows setting limiting Accept Language use
Reported by
wesam.we...@gmail.com,
Nov 8 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.89 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Open "Control Panel\Clock, Language, and Region\Language\Advanced settings" 2. Check the checkbox for "Don't let websites access my language list. the language of my date, time, and number formatting will be used instead." 3. Visit this URL https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-http-headers-is-my-browser-sending What is the expected behavior? Don't include the "ACCEPT_LANGUAGE" header when this setting is set. What went wrong? you can see that chrome is still includes the "ACCEPT_LANGUAGE" header with the list of headers of the request, all other browsers don't do that. Did this work before? No Chrome version: 62.0.3202.89 Channel: stable OS Version: 10.0 Flash Version: I debated with myself if I should report this issue because I put a lot of effort in i18ning my websites by taking advantage of that header on the server. it is useful for tracking and advertising too, but you gotta respect the users' OS settings that they set.
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Nov 8 2017
sorry I just submitted another one without the privacy tag (with "other"), because it isn't actually a security issue it's a privacy issue. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=782814 which one you want to close and delete you decide. Yes, on Edge and IE and FireFox all tested.
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Nov 8 2017
Agreed with elawrence@ that this is a Windows setting that is likely intended to be a part of IE or Edge configuration. That said, if Windows exposes an API to read it, I'm all for respecting it. The more access points there are for the user to control Accept-Languages, the more likely it is that users trying to protect their privacy will find one. +cc napper@ FYI
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Nov 8 2017
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Nov 8 2017
Issue 782814 has been merged into this issue.
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Nov 8 2017
Thanks guys. Here you go, 5 screenshots of a test.
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Nov 10 2017
"Unable to reproduce the issue on the reported chrome version stable 62.0.3202.89 and on the latest dev 64.0.3263.0 using windows10 by following the exact steps mentioned in the comment#0. Attaching the screen cast of the same. Note: We observed that chrome bahaviour is similar to that of firefox behaviour with reference to the screen shot provided by you from comment#7. @Rerporter: Could you please check the same issue on a new profile and let us know the behaviour. Thanks!"
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Nov 12 2017
@Rerporter from the task-bar in the video, it seems that you don't have multiple input languages on that Windows machine, can you add Hindi + English + other language and test again? Hindi, English and french for example. also try refreshing multiple times, it seems Chrome doesn't include that header with all requests.
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Nov 12 2017
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "vamshi.kommuri@techmahindra.com" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label. For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
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Nov 16 2017
As per comment #9, added multiple languages and tested the issue on Win 10 using chrome reported version 62.0.3202.89, latest stable #62.0.3020.94, canary #64.0.3269.3 Reporter@:Please find the attached screencast and let us know if anything is missed from our end. Thanks..
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Nov 29 2017
rkalavakuntla@ sorry, just got that "reporter@" refers to me, what is it that you need? I didn't get that.
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Nov 29 2017
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "rkalavakuntla@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label. For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
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Sep 5
Reviving this old bug. +yyushkina@, could your team look into this?
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Sep 5
@c11: I don't see a screencast in the comment. Can someone from test please confirm this behavior, making sure to have multiple languages selected? Also - do we know if Windows exposes an API for this or if it as c1 suggests intended for Edge/IE use only?
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Sep 6
Unable to reproduce the issue on reported chrome version 62.0.3202.89 and on latest stable 69.0.3497.81 using Windows 10 with the exact steps mentioned in comment#0. Along with that had multiple languages selected in control panel as per comment#9. Note: Attaching the screen cast of the same for reference from latest stable version. Hence removing Needs-TestConfirmation label. Thanks!
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Sep 6
Won't fixing since it can't be reproduced |
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Comment 1 by elawrence@chromium.org
, Nov 8 2017Labels: -Type-Bug-Security -Restrict-View-SecurityTeam Type-Bug
Summary: Chrome ignores Windows setting limiting Accept Language use (was: Chrome doesn't respect this privacy setting like other browsers)