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The original seems to be on LinkedIn. Does anyone else find it weird when geek content is posted to LinkedIn? It's the last place I'd think to look. Am I missing out or is this an outlier?

For sure. It’s approximately the first time I’ve seen something like that on LinkedIn.

Re: Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it

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The original seems to be on LinkedIn. Does anyone else find it weird when geek content is posted to LinkedIn? It's the last place I'd think to look. Am I missing out or is this an outlier?

I work in computer vision and like hearing about the latest thing. I have been finding LinkedIn increasingly useful as a way to learn about machine learning.

There are _a lot_ of posts that I have to scroll through of little to no value, but every so often I see a post by Yann LeCun or the lead developer advocate at TensorFlow or a paper someone has liked that catches my eye or a new model release.

"Machine learning LinkedIn", as it were, is a real thing; not sure whether this applies to other disciplines.

Re: Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it

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Am I the only one that's horrified that window.screenX and window.screenY exist? This is not information that I want to provide.

Yep. There are some ridiculous web APIs out there that expose all sorts of things you'd think should remain private. Take the Battery Status API for example [1].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Battery_Sta...

Re: Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it

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W-why is window LOCATION exposed to websites? Apparently even in FF private browsing... At first I thought this is an electron only thing. I get it that we gave up on fingerprinting resistance but this is like pissing on it's grave. EDIT: privacy.resistFingerprinting set to true fixes the coords to 0

I thought you meant literal `window.location` and was confused, but yeah `window.screenX/Y` is a pretty suspect feature, now that you mention it.

Re: Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it

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post #16

W-why is window LOCATION exposed to websites? Apparently even in FF private browsing... At first I thought this is an electron only thing. I get it that we gave up on fingerprinting resistance but this is like pissing on it's grave. EDIT: privacy.resistFingerprinting set to true fixes the coords to 0

I'm as surprised as well.

I'm trying to guess why, and can only imagine that at some point the idea was to support multi-window webapps, like maybe you'd have separate windows for documents and different tool palettes, and they'd want to know each other's locations to try to prevent overlaps? I mean, back in the day, framesets were another idea that experienced some popularity before being totally eclipsed by -- all of this back in the era when everything was based on the multiple-windows paradigm rather than the multiple-tabs paradigm. Window.screenLeft apparently originated in IE [1].

Just a guess though. Very curious if there's any legitimate reason for it to continue to exist, or whether W3 ought to deprecate it.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scre...

Re: Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it

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Am I the only one that's horrified that window.screenX and window.screenY exist? This is not information that I want to provide.

Yep. There are some ridiculous web APIs out there that expose all sorts of things you'd think should remain private. Take the Battery Status API for example [1]. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Battery_Sta...

This would be useful in WebXR (given opt-in)

Re: Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it

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post #16

W-why is window LOCATION exposed to websites? Apparently even in FF private browsing... At first I thought this is an electron only thing. I get it that we gave up on fingerprinting resistance but this is like pissing on it's grave. EDIT: privacy.resistFingerprinting set to true fixes the coords to 0

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