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Re: Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you

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Post by garbagewoman »

greggman65 wrote: post #55
coffeecoders wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I’ve been experimenting with ways to reduce my browser fingerprint and exploring techniques to anonymize fingerprint data. So I built this. This is kind of like a lighter, more thorough version of CreepJS but entirely client side. I don’t maintain massive lists of time zones or do server-side comparisons to calculate uniqueness. Instead, it automatically surfaces everything a browser exposes, explaining each i…

There's a mis-understanding of at least the Graphics part. For example WebGPU features. It looks like lots of info https://webgpureport.org/ But, they are bucketed https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/#privacy-considerations It's not zero pieces of info but it's also not close to as bad as it looks. Effectively, everyone who has, say an NVidia GPU, will likely have the same list of features and limits. As a more general exam…

You’re quite welcome to not believe what everyone is telling you.

Re: Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you

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Post by lossyalgo »

godelski wrote: post #77
Phelinofist wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What I'd love for these sites to do is help me understand where I am distributionally. How unique am I? On what? Help me understand what needs to be fixed and what my threat vector is. This EFF tool does this https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Thanks, I forgot about that one. To critique that (and maybe suggest what OP can do to make theirs better) is that there's poor visualization. What's great is that it tells me there right in center > Our tests indicate *that you have **strong protection against Web tracking***. > Blocking tracking ads? Yes Blocking invisible trackers? Yes Protecting you from fingerprinting? Your browser has a nearly-unique fingerprin…

It would be nice if they (or someone) could list ways to mitigate against each of these information leakages. Or even nicer if someone made a plugin that make us unidentifiable. Even nicer would be a way to e.g. disable sharing which fonts, extensions, etc. I have installed. Why do webpages even need to know such details? What if our browsers just sent Firefox vN instead of this huge string? Why does a webpage need to know how many CPU cores I have, or, let's say I have > 4, that should be sufficient to run any webpage and anything > 4 could just be reported as 4. If they don't know these things, I assume webpages/frameworks will still work fine.

Re: Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you

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Post by manbitesdog »

mcny wrote: post #28
manbitesdog wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks AI-assisted, based on these two commits: * https://github.com/neberej/exposedbydefault/commit/503bd6519... * https://github.com/neberej/exposedbydefault/commit/16693ba17... But to what extent should we care for such a small website? The AI witch hunt won't get us too far, and this new way of producing is only getting started. The loss of control to a non-deterministic black box is worrysome, but at some poin…

> but at some point non-vibe coded (hard coded? brain coded?) software might become less error-prone that vibe-coded Did you mean more instead of less?

Yes (ᵕ—ᴗ—)
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