The underlying intent here (figure out if it's an existing customer of our locally installed apps when they visit our website) doesn't seem bad, but I certainly dislike both the hosts file and localhost detection options.

I'm curious if there's a "good" way to do this.

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ssdspoimdsjvv 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I dislike the intent too. A website should simply not be able to see which apps I've got installed. Imagine Facebook doing stuff like this in order to know what ads they should serve.

	▲	porridgeraisin 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Fairly certain they already do, atleast on mobile.

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ZoneZealot 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Next they'll be installing a font like TeamViewer did... https://community.teamviewer.com/English/discussion/124507/s...

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10729287 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Just do it by asking users to log in. Am I missing something here ?

	▲	johntash 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		No that seems like the reasonable expectation to me too.