Removing Client Hints on Chromium, More or Less Fingerprintable?
Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial]
June 23, 2026
By default, Chromium sends Sec-CH-UA, Sec-CH-UA-Platform, and Sec-CH-UA-Mobile with every request. High-entropy hints (like architecture, model, platform version, etc.) are only sent when a site includes an Accept-CH response header. (They’re also available via NavigatorUAData API but my concern here is specifically the request headers, since that can be blocked more easily.)
Does removing or minimizing these default Client Hints make a browser more fingerprintable (because it deviates from the expected baseline) or less fingerprintable (because it reduces entropy)? And how common is the Accept-CH header in the wild, actually being abused for fingerprinting in practice?
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