Funny how websites can read the gyroscope. It can also be used as a microphone. https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/
This ones my fave: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint
It shows the percentages of people who use your same browser features (called similarity ratios), and can determine whether you’re unique in their dataset. Can help for tweaking browser settings to try to make yourself not unique.
The only thing in there I find surprising is the battery info. I’m not sure what legitimate use a website would have for that one. And perhaps that the gyro isn’t behind a permission. There’s pages that use it for 360 video for example, but you should have to allow that one.
Your IP address is a fundamental part of communication over the Internet, obviously the servers you speak to are going to need to know where to send their replies. There are ways to mask that ofc; proxies, vpns, etc.
Timezone+Language are needed for localization.
Display information and preferences, to render things correctly/as desired. Desktop web pages look like crap on a mobile display (and what type of mobile? Tablet, or phone?), plus they can’t (well, shouldn’t) show things in darkMode unless you tell them that’s what you want…
Cookies: it does say 0mb stored by others for me, but that’s not entirely true. Sites are typically given independent storage so they can’t read eachothers cookies, but they can work together to have one site read its own cookies and pass that on to the site you’re currently visiting, on request, all embedded in the original page you were viewing. Just because they can’t read eachothers storage directly doesn’t necessarily mean thay can’t get the data. 10gb per site seems like an absurdly high limit for this though. You could store whole movies in that space.
Visibility is one I’ve known but never really liked. The only ‘legitimate’ use for that I’ve seen is pausing media when it leaves your screen (or waiting to start media until its entered view), but half the time that’s undesirable anyway. Why should a site know if, when, and how long I’ve looked at a particular portion of the page?
I prefer https://www.deviceinfo.me/
iOS and the browser I use block a lot of stuff from being visible, interesting!
Interesting that this one doesn’t detect my battery (says it’s blocked) but the one OP posted can see it
It seems to be based on how the website is interpreting the browser. I got mine correct but with the battery mentions Firefox and a removed API. I wasn’t using Firefox.
it didnt catch much stuff and a lot was wrong lol
switch timezone to same as yours but different country, use vpn, obfuscate fonts in browser,obfuscate language used, only gpu is exposed unavoidably
Really interesting and slightly scary, thanks for sharing!
Ty for sharing
So a prettier and minimal version of https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ ?
Got me to disable sendrefererheader. We’ll see if that breaks anything…
Scary
Very well done site!
Site feels very LLM generated - in particular the writing just feels off
I scrolled “103% of the way down”
Could you explain why it would be in any way relevant if that was the case?
I’m interested in the people that make the stuff I consume. When I read something or enjoy a piece of art, much of the enjoyment is imagining why the artist made the decisions they did. If it was made by AI, the answer is much less interesting.
This is not a piece of art, it’s a piece of educational material showing people what information websites collect about them. But it’s also fascinating how you could enjoy something if you didn’t know how it was produced, and then the act of knowing would remove the enjoyment you were deriving from it.
https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai/p/2042849/i-ve-finally-understood-what-my-beef-with-ai-is
I came across this post the other day, and this person has put into words what I have simply failed to.
In short; AI makes the world feel empty and hollow. Many people enjoy the process behind the things we create or encounter, even if it wasn’t us to go through that process. Replacing it with AI removes the human touch/connection that made that thing interesting. I don’t want to know about the faceless algorithm that spat out what I’m seeing; I want to know about the person that created this and their experiences that brought them here.
