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Merchant identity in "canmakepayment" event

Category
Miscellaneous
Type
Feature removal
Status
Removed (Chrome 111)
Intent stage
Prepare to ship

Summary

The “canmakepayment” service worker event lets the merchant know whether the user has a card on file in an installed payment app. It used to silently pass the merchant's origin and arbitrary data to a service worker from payment app origin. This cross-origin communication happened on PaymentRequest construction in JavaScript, did not require a user gesture, and did not show any user interface. This silent data passage has been removed from the "canmakepayment" event (and the Android IS_READY_TO_PAY Intent).

Motivation

To improve user privacy, remove the merchant origin and arbitrary data from the "canmakepayment" service worker event: - topOrigin - paymentRequestOrigin - methodData - modifiers

Standards & signals

Samples: https://rsolomakhin.github.io/pr/apps/romantic-dirt-jaguar

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