Proposal: remove bid adapter access to navigator

[patmmccann]

Type of issue

Proposal

Description

An enormous variety of code constructs device portion of bid requests by accessing navigator, typically in slightly varying ways, or worse, copy pasted between one adapter to the next.

Prebid.js/modules/snigelBidAdapter.js

Line 120 in 17f3468

function getLanguage() {

Core should be able to gather all the required information in navigator and construct the device object on the request. Banning access to navigator should make the project smaller, the code more maintainable, bid requests more uniform, and finally, if something is missing from core and someone needs to add it, that additional information will propagate to more integrations more quickly.

[patmmccann]

cc @giuseppe-exads you just added a bunch of logic relying on navigator for the exads adapter. We'd prefer you rely on the request object and if you need any of the transformations you committed, you consider issuing a pull request to the request object formation