feat: Set some options in main process

* Remove sophie and electron from the user-agent sting whenever possible
* Disable MPRIS integration

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/packages/main/src/index.ts b/packages/main/src/index.ts
index 59b9ecb..0530e32 100644
--- a/packages/main/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/main/src/index.ts
@@ -44,8 +44,24 @@ if (!isSingleInstance) {
   process.exit(0);
 }
 
+// Alwayse enable sandboxing.
 app.enableSandbox();
 
+// Remove sophie and electron from the user-agent string to avoid detection.
+const originalUserAgent = app.userAgentFallback;
+// Removing the electron version breaks redux devtools, so we only do this in production.
+if (!isDevelopment) {
+  const userAgent = originalUserAgent.replaceAll(/ ([Ss]ophie|Electron)\/[0-9.]+/g, '');
+  app.userAgentFallback = userAgent;
+}
+
+// Disable chromium's MPRIS integration, which is usually more annoying
+// (triggered by random sounds played by websites) than useful.
+app.commandLine.appendSwitch(
+  'disable-features',
+  'HardwareMediaKeyHandling,MediaSessionService',
+);
+
 if (isDevelopment) {
   installDevToolsExtensions(app);
 }
@@ -74,6 +90,8 @@ async function createWindow(): Promise<void> {
 
   const { webContents } = mainWindow;
 
+  webContents.userAgent = originalUserAgent;
+
   webContents.on('ipc-message', (_event, channel, ...args) => {
     try {
       switch (channel) {