Don't federate device name by default, or at least make it toggleable #359
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Synapse has disabled federating device names by default for many months now, mainly for privacy reasons as the device name can consist of things like your OS, your browser, and the version of the browser and/or client you're using. This has been a seamless change with no impact, and if people would like to still federate device names, they can do so via allow_device_name_lookup_over_federation. I don't really see why Conduit doesn't do the same thing, especially if server-side URL previews are not being worked on any time soon due to privacy and security reasons, and would assume the same thing applies here.
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Federating device names should be opt-in by the homeserver admin (controllable by a setting like Synapse's
allow_device_name_lookup_over_federation
), and should be disabled by default.A (very likely hacky) way of achieving this was done on my build of Conduit with the following patch:
Is anyone working on this? I'd like to