It’s just a blank page for me on iOS 26.1 Safari with Lockdown Enabled.
Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you
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#32Seems like the fingerprint ID is unique on each refresh in Safari, so fingerprint protection working as intended I presume?
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#33What we need is VPB. Virtual Private Browser like VPNs. Essentially standardised cloud browsers that can execute your requests and send you back the result as bitmap buffers.
I believe Cloudflare has this product already https://www.cloudflare.com/zero-trust/products/browser-isola...
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#34What we need is VPB. Virtual Private Browser like VPNs. Essentially standardised cloud browsers that can execute your requests and send you back the result as bitmap buffers.
Didn't Stallman himself write and use something in the same vein to browse the internet?
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#35May I ask if this code is the result of 'vibe coding'?
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…
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#36This is useless. I think you misunderstand the point of fingerprinting. A powerful fingerprinting algo should strive to detect you as the same person (aprox) while you use two different browsers. A more powerful one will detect you while you use another device. This only detect your current refresh.
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#37Is it possible and cost-covering to create an ad-sponsored service that discloses what ad networks collect about users - i.e. age, location, preferences, interests, pregnancy, illnesses etc?
Because let’s be honest - all of us know that a lot of data points are being collected about us, countless articles have been written about the insanity of cookie and user-data monetization networks - still it appears to be a privilege to few to tap into that data trove.
I personally haven’t seen an effort to try and make this transparent. Efforts like this page are commendable and informative, much like amiunique or other services - still they lack the tangible information that sharing this information with “the world” reveals about an affected individual.
Why hasn’t this been done yet? Why is this seemingly not trivial?
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#38Seems like the fingerprint ID is unique on each refresh in Safari, so fingerprint protection working as intended I presume?
The main "Fingerprint ID" on this site seems to be a direct combination of all values, so if even a single one changes it'll act like the only conclusion is this is an entirely different fingerprint. Actual fingerprinting is a bit smarter, but it's not really possible to demonstrate that in a single clientside scripted static web page.
The more important bit to see from this tool is probably "this is an example of how much information which can aid in identification your browser exposes".
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#39What we need is VPB. Virtual Private Browser like VPNs. Essentially standardised cloud browsers that can execute your requests and send you back the result as bitmap buffers.
So basically VNC?
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#40Is it possible and cost-covering to create an ad-sponsored service that discloses what ad networks collect about users - i.e. age, location, preferences, interests, pregnancy, illnesses etc? Because let’s be honest - all of us know that a lot of data points are being collected about us, countless articles have been written about the insanity of cookie and user-data monetization networks - still it appears to be a pri…
I'm unaware of how other platforms work, but for Google you can just see what buckets have been associated with your account:
https://myadcenter.google.com/controls
I'm not sure how that would work from an ad-buying perspective, from what I understand you essentially choose which buckets you'd like to show ads to? Like I don't think ad-buyers get the whole dossier for the person they're showing ads to, the platform just decides "from what you've told us, this person seems likely to like your ads"