sooooo reading a browsers user-agent is now a thing to worry about? oh look I changed my user-agent and now this dumb ass site is giving all the wrong info woulda look at that.
“We know where you are based on your IP” yeah bro, that’s how IP’s work. look i turned on mullvad, omg now it says i’m in Sweden!
“we know you’re using an AMD gpu” gasp ya don’t say. oh look I changed my user-agent again and now you think I’m on nvidia, crazy how that works huh?
This is a dumb bullshit site.
oh look it’s built by these morons: https://riseuplabs.app/ a company that vibe codes every “product” they have. so naturally building a stupid site that just pulls your user-agent would seem amazing to them.
This is bullshit marketing for their bullshit vibe coding. report this post, it’s an ad.
They’re really playing up the ominous tone.
“We know this because your IP address — xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx — was the first thing your device sent us. We know the rest of it. We chose not to display it. Most pages would not have made that choice. We did not ask for your location. Your address arrived before you did.”
Uh, yeah. That’s how IP addresses work.
dude be careful, right now your house is probably broadcasting a street address.
the mailman that drops your mail off? he knows
We sent a SYN-ACK packet and YOU acknowledged it, confirming you are not spoofing YOUR IP address. Now WE share the same sequence number. Most sites do not tell you this is happening.
Compare this to Google’s homepage, which is clean, wholesome, friendly, and inviting.
(I don’t mind sites that try to scare the user straight, but this one definitely has the unmistakable tinge of AI-generated wording. Make a sense if you click through the links at the bottom to see who created it.)
It really looks ai-generated. It even contains mistakes like saying that my 5yo phone model with low resolution is a high end device. All the text is pretty “generic” and sloppy
Yeah, a bit overly ominous. But my mom doesn’t know that’s how IP addresses work. And if it scares a bit more privacy mindedness into her, good.
Well yes, but most people don’t even know that part. I guess it’s not the worst thing to tell them?
Yes. You can either give them your real one, or not. That’s the point being made. Actually the point of the whole page is that just loading a website tells a huge amount about you, even if you are behind a vpn and extensions to minimize your fingerprint. You are a product for sale.
The location is off by about fifty miles. It didn’t get my GPU or battery level. Everything else is stuff that doesn’t matter. Firefox browser, English, android device. I am not terribly impressed.
Didn’t realize my phone sent it’s rotation data without promoting, everything else is kind of needed to send me info.
My IP
My screen size
My interactions with the page
Doesn’t seem to be anything new here than what’s we already know:
Just with a more ominous tone. Is it any wonder people are afraid of technology?
Your finger moved 273 times. You tapped 14 times.
I’m sorry what?
Since they went into the effort to make this sound so ominous, it’d be cool to see some actual inferences from the data points. For example it would be pretty easy to tell you are behind a VPN and your real location is probably xyz.
They knew i was on a vpn and the time zone, your phone just gives that shit up
Dont even get me started on “experimental” browser flags that come default on some browsers
We know your full name, blood type, and that your left elbow is itching a bit right now. Your browser told us. But we’re choosing to not show you. We also know what you did on July 14, 2018.
It’s a light version of what websites apps collect
Your graphics processor identified itself as or similar.
Ah yes, Or similar, great GPU, love it.
Location is a few states over. Possibly due to being on a phone? Technically wrong carrier, mine routes through the one that it said. And the app I’m using I guess technically uses chrome to display, but I’m not using the chrome app.
Fine giving away all that info it makes sense tk send that info to websites. There is no way that fingerprint result is accurate considering half the stats were wrong on Firefox.
I couldn’t help but notice this is volume 4. Where and what are the other volumes out of mad curiosity?
Seems to be making a lot out of “you send your user agent and screen resolution”.
There is a looot more than that lol. Usually enough to allow them to uniquely fingerprint every device on earth.
There were a couple of things on that page that were novel to me. “Only a couple” made it worthwhile though:
- There’s a free tier to a service that gives you geolocation data from an IP address
- This site counts the number of times you move to a different tab
I didnt mean this site specifically just in general.
See this site for something more technical. Takes a while to process everything give it a minute.
