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Make spellchecker language and Content-Language independent

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#2,218 opened on Jan 22, 2023

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Description

Description

To enhance fingerprinting protection, spellcheck languages should be separate from Content-Language

Who's implementing?

  • I'm willing to implement this feature myself

The problem

To make fingerprinting harder, I have my language set to en-US,en;q=0.9 though it's not my native language. I would also like to switch the spellchecker to my native language and maybe even other languages that I sometimes use, but I don't want my Content-Language contain those languages as it would make my fingerprint (more) unique.

Possible solutions

Add an option to chrome://settings/languages to exclude selected languages from Content-Language header and exclude them from the header.

Alternatives

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Contributor guide

Research direction
Examine how Chromium handles language settings and Content Language header. Look into chrome://settings/languages page code and the network stack where headers are set. Propose a UI change to exclude certain languages from the header.
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
Half day
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
Active
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Clear
Prerequisites
None
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
50