Firefox on Android with ublock
It got the city wrong but close to where I live. This stuff would be wildly wrong if I fired up my VPN. Although its annoying when I connected to a VPN to Steam it’ll often show my prices in Canadian dollars instead of USD.
Well, at least something positive from the shit I take for not sheepling my way through life using Chrome
While I still follow the general privacy first tenets, I have ended up backing off on some tools (noscript and librewolf) at the extremes of privacy because if every site is going to track everything by my IP or by my ASN or browser fingerprint, I do have a happy medium of being private enough while not being utterly broken in my browsing.
Roughly that looks like email aliases on demand via sieve rules, ublock origin with liberal use of filter lists, different handles and a password manager, frozen credit ratings, and Tailscale exit nodes or Mozilla(Mullvad) VPN for uncontrolled WiFi access points for my jnrootabke android device and mostly signal for comms.
I'm getting to old to be a privacy extreme enthusiast when all of my family side channels everything straight to Facebook, so this is the impure level of privacy I can sustain.
guess mine isn't such a specific model as yours. so I don't have a real GPU, i have something similar to a GPU??? did I get a knock off Alibaba version?
The thing that bothered me is that browser are still sending the Referer info. I thought that was not supposed to work under https?
- Some of the numbers are off, eg - low contrast in dark mode makes text hard to readAnnoyingly the web is becoming a bit more annoying to browse as a DuckDuckGo (mobile) and Brave (desktop) user. With a VPN on top it gets even worse.
* It's running a kind of Chrome on a kind of Linux, at a stretch.
* Nobody can infer when I work and when I sleep. That includes me.
* The recent, high-end display is the screen of a low-end tablet I bought in a supermarket five years ago.
* But yes, browser fingerprinting is annoying.
* Since you can detect light mode, would it kill you to honor it?
* Your socks don't match anything in the room.
* The man you thought you killed in Tuscaloosa woke up and walked home an hour later and is now a chiropractor in Shreveport.
* Your daughter is pregnant by the kid who trims the hedges.
* Your dog is dreaming about the squirrel in the wood pile.
How does it know?
> Since you can detect light mode, would it kill you to honor it?
It would probably still be low contrast garbage even if it did. :/
I use windows color filters (Grayscale inverted is my preferred, in the past I used plain inverted) for poor man's dark mode (or light mode in this case) for stuff that doesn't honor my color scheme and hurts my eyes. It also has a hotkey, so it is really handy sometimes, but you need to enable it in the settings.
Assistive technologies are great, not only because they benefit those who have no choice but to rely on them, but also they can benefit the luckier people.
It’s been a long time my 2016’ iPhone as been called recent or high-end but I’ll take the compliment, thank-you.
> Every page you have ever visited knows at least this much. Most of them know more. None of them told you.
So? Why would I want the news site I'm visiting to "tell me" it knows my preferred language, that I'm using light mode, or the estimated location of my IP address...?
It's not surprising that a browser which renders text can be used to identify which fonts are available. It's not surprising that a browser which allows calculation with your GPU will identify your type of GPU.
The "without asking" framing is just silly. I expect to be asked for consent to use my webcam or microphone or exact precise location. But the last thing I want is to be asked for permission around detecting my local time zone or preferred language or my screen resolution or 20 other totally reasonable things for a website to be able to know.
No it didn't. It was queried by the JS running on the page. It's a fun demo but it could really do without the slop prose.
That checks out. I think what I have is similar to a graphics card but isn't quite.
- Reverse IP/geocode (while be cute about "we won't show your IP", oh no, not my IP!)
- Timezone - Ok, yeah, lots of websites need/make use of that for completely legit tasks
- Browser/OS/Screen size - boring, again mostly needed or historical
- GPU - Again, not super interesting IMHO
- Battery - Ok, this is the first one I think should be behind a permission dialog
- Language - Come off it, that's just table stakes
- Fonts - Again, not sure how else this should work in a "perfect" world
- Cookies/dark mode/DnT/etc - Ehh, again aside from fingerprinting (which ruins everything) these are all QoL improvements IMHO
- Referrer - Again, this is just how the web works
I think the websites that take all of that and show you a fingerprint or show the data in a more data-oriented way are way more compelling.
This, almost certainly vibe-coded, website doesn't do anything novel and hits on a huge pet peeve of mine: using low-quality arguments for a legit issue (fingerprinting). By mixing in stuff like your IP/Language on the same level as Battery/GPU/other-fingerprinty-things it makes the whole argument less compelling.
> news.ycombinator.com
This has always bothered me the most. I disabled the 'Referer' header once, but it breaks many websites.
The number of data points shown here is low - there's plenty more it could be checking - & a good number of them seem to be wrong (it's only detecting one as explicitly "withheld" but I believe a few of them actually are, leading to garbled output).
Needs some QA.
It looks like this is an ad by the way, check op's posting history
peoples obsession with 100% privacy while operating in a public space is immature. if you're that risk averse dont connect to the internet.
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