Great idea: A web page that simply shows you the info your browser shares about you and your system whenever you open a web page.https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

[evilkiru@techhub.social]

@CTHW

The reason it got your location wrong is because what it's actually detecting is the point at which your computer connected to your internet service provider.

Mine was also wrong, but only off by one state. At other times, other sites that purport to know where you're located have been off by as little as half a county. Only once has such a site actually identified the township I'm in, but never the actual town.

@petersuber

[cthw@mstdn.ca]

@EvilKiru @petersuber

I use VPN

Works …

[nabor@troet.cafe]

@petersuber Nothing new, only a page that tries to scare people.
sinceyouarrived.world/taken claims to expose browser tracking – but pulls the very trick it accuses: framing mechanics as betrayal.
"Your device volunteered…" = HTTP headers.
"Battery API hidden from you" = Firefox removed it to protect you.
"Browser masked your GPU" = that IS anti-fingerprinting.
Protection reframed as suspicion, protocol as confession, capability as act. Outrage as aesthetic, not awareness.

[bund_sb@climatejustice.global]

@petersuber

"your attention is a commodity " ..

[rodrigofaustino@bolha.us]

@Meznor @petersuber What protection tools do you use?

[maggiejk@zeroes.ca]

@CTHW @petersuber it had my location as Los Angeles, which is incorrect, but then in the next paragraph it knew I was in the same time zone as New York, which is correct.

[cthw@mstdn.ca]

@maggiejk @petersuber
Same here.
And when I tried to input a different name for date/time it kept the VPN server time.

[barbarawagner@mastodon.social]

@petersuber ??? Browsing with Vivaldi is Chrome????

[shonin@c.im]

@petersuber Thanks! Added this to the link collection here: https://manzokuan.blogspot.com/p/information-for-future-envirohealers.html

[scriptkiddielucifer@infosec.exchange]

@petersuber quien maneja esa web? Igual os están sacando datos , vosotres sabréis