“You opened this page.
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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...
