“You opened this page.
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@Migueldeicaza Is there a way to prevent this?
@clonedhuman @Migueldeicaza a VPN will hide* your IP (and thus aprox. location, and Timezone). There are also browser extensions that can change your User Agent (the metadata that tells websites your OS, browser, etc). That will pretty much cover everything.
Keep in mind that the website uses spooky language for what are either generic browser APIs, or plain old fundamental functions of the Internet.
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“You opened this page. It already knows the following.”
taken.
What the page already knows about you, revealed as you read it. No input. No permission. No exception.
Since You Arrived (sinceyouarrived.world)
@Migueldeicaza @bartt Yeah right. We already knew this for ages. And region lookup based on IP. We can do that at least for 40 years. So. What's so scary?
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@clonedhuman @Migueldeicaza a VPN will hide* your IP (and thus aprox. location, and Timezone). There are also browser extensions that can change your User Agent (the metadata that tells websites your OS, browser, etc). That will pretty much cover everything.
Keep in mind that the website uses spooky language for what are either generic browser APIs, or plain old fundamental functions of the Internet.
@crittero @Migueldeicaza Thanks for the info! I did get an extension to change User Agent. Might not use it all the time.
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@Migueldeicaza funny thing, if I use an anti-fingerprinting browser and a vpn and stuff like that, most things this page tells me are fake, but there is another website called something like amiunique.org, which tells me that the combination of all the fake things about me can still uniquely identify me on the internet... at least among its other visitors I guess
@rustynail @Migueldeicaza `amiunique` considers me unique because I have my taskbar on the side, so the browser viewport is "unique".
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@Migueldeicaza @bartt Yeah right. We already knew this for ages. And region lookup based on IP. We can do that at least for 40 years. So. What's so scary?
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@Migueldeicaza @bartt I'm going to ignore this.
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@Migueldeicaza it did not identify my browser correctly
@WilmBoerhout @Migueldeicaza plus it's terribly easy to change that in a number of browsers...
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@Migueldeicaza ehh, a lot of scare tactic language, and not a lot of actual explanations of the potential danger.
like, the "what renders your world" tells me nothing about how this information can actually be weaponized in any way.
or how it can tell what fonts i have. So? it gives no explanation for why this is dangerous (if it even is)
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@magicalgrrrl It actually does: "Advertising networks combine this with your screen size, language, timezone, and GPU to identify devices across websites. Without cookies. Without accounts. Without a name. The technique is called browser fingerprinting. It is legal in most jurisdictions. It is happening on most pages you visit. None of them mention it."
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@liquidparasyte not Safari
@Migueldeicaza @liquidparasyte this is pretty eye opening and nicely presented. I do have a small gripe with safari because they disabled gyro suddenly about a decade ago without even leaving an option for the website to request gyro access via a dialog, thus breaking some genuinely cool web apps. There was a better way thru could have done it while still blocking silent gyro access
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“You opened this page. It already knows the following.”
taken.
What the page already knows about you, revealed as you read it. No input. No permission. No exception.
Since You Arrived (sinceyouarrived.world)
It will never know that I did not click the link.
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“You opened this page. It already knows the following.”
taken.
What the page already knows about you, revealed as you read it. No input. No permission. No exception.
Since You Arrived (sinceyouarrived.world)
@Migueldeicaza
Well done on the part of this old version of #Fedilab's built in browser for spoofing half the results to obscure my identity! I wish it blocked the power API though... -
@Sempf I really loved the tone, typography and disclosure- such a. Rautiful way of presenting it
@Migueldeicaza @Sempf thank you so much for sharing that link! I know someone who'll love it.
Now I'm wondering if there's anything similar showing what your average commercial social media, games and AI chatbot apps are collecting...
