I'm not worried about my privacy. No one can read the dark text on that page anyhow.
A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
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Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#52* I'm not in that city. * It's running a kind of Chrome on a kind of Linux, at a stretch. * Nobody can infer when I work and when I sleep. That includes me. * The recent, high-end display is the screen of a low-end tablet I bought in a supermarket five years ago. * But yes, browser fingerprinting is annoying. * Since you can detect light mode, would it kill you to honor it?
It was much better for me.
* Your socks don't match anything in the room.
* The man you thought you killed in Tuscaloosa woke up and walked home an hour later and is now a chiropractor in Shreveport.
* Your daughter is pregnant by the kid who trims the hedges.
* Your dog is dreaming about the squirrel in the wood pile.
How does it know?
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#53* I'm not in that city. * It's running a kind of Chrome on a kind of Linux, at a stretch. * Nobody can infer when I work and when I sleep. That includes me. * The recent, high-end display is the screen of a low-end tablet I bought in a supermarket five years ago. * But yes, browser fingerprinting is annoying. * Since you can detect light mode, would it kill you to honor it?
* That's the wrong battery percentage and the wrong charging status.
> Since you can detect light mode, would it kill you to honor it?
It would probably still be low contrast garbage even if it did. :/
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#54We've seen tens of pages like this, all done better. Now the vibe coders got into it and completely fuck up the idea.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#55Man what a awful looking site. I shouldn't have to crank my brightness to max to kind of read the words
I agree, this site is an eyesore.
I use windows color filters (Grayscale inverted is my preferred, in the past I used plain inverted) for poor man's dark mode (or light mode in this case) for stuff that doesn't honor my color scheme and hurts my eyes. It also has a hotkey, so it is really handy sometimes, but you need to enable it in the settings.
Assistive technologies are great, not only because they benefit those who have no choice but to rely on them, but also they can benefit the luckier people.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#56Vibecoded slop with LLM-written copy. When will it stop
We desperately need some tagging system/convention here. Maybe just putting [AI] into the title. This bullshit is getting really tiring.
It looks like this is an ad by the way, check op's posting history
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
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Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#58Update: I pushed two rounds of fixes for things people caught.
1. GPU "or similar" stranded prose. Firefox returns "Mozilla, or similar" as the masked renderer string and my parser was grabbing the second half. Masked-GPU case now gets its own observation.
2. Desktop battery showing NaN/100%. Chromium reports a phantom 100%-charging battery on machines without one; my filter was too narrow. Stricter check, falls through to "kept back."
3. Storage quota of 39+ GB reading as implausible. Now expressed in GB, and the prose was reworded ("would let this page write up to" rather than "allocated to").
4. Screen size matching window size (Firefox letterboxing / Brave farbling). Page now names it: "your browser appears to be returning the viewport in place of the real screen — anti-fingerprinting at work."
5. "Recent, high-end display" being claimed on old retina devices (iPhone 5-class). Tightened the heuristic.
6. No-JS hangs at "reading." block added.
Worth saying directly since it came up. The prose is hand-written. Each observation has a small set of templated registers and the code selects among them based on what the data returns. There is no LLM in the runtime path. AI helped me iterate on the spec like it does for most projects now. The sentences on the page are mine. If that's not the kind of work you're in the mood for, fair, but the slop charge is wrong.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#59It's somewhat interesting but over half of what it talked about is just silly. - Reverse IP/geocode (while be cute about "we won't show your IP", oh no, not my IP!) - Timezone - Ok, yeah, lots of websites need/make use of that for completely legit tasks - Browser/OS/Screen size - boring, again mostly needed or historical - GPU - Again, not super interesting IMHO - Battery - Ok, this is the first one I think should be…
Fair pushback, and partially right. Most of these data points are individually defensible. Accept-Language helps with localization, Referer is just how links work, timezone is universally useful. The page's argument isn't that any single one is bad; it's that the bundle is identifying. Panopticlick / Cover Your Tracks measures combinatorial uniqueness, not any single point. The piece could be sharper about the distinction. Noted.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#60This is just... silly. Everything it told me, while browsing on my iPhone, seems entirely reasonable. > Every page you have ever visited knows at least this much. Most of them know more. None of them told you. So? Why would I want the news site I'm visiting to "tell me" it knows my preferred language, that I'm using light mode, or the estimated location of my IP address...? It's not surprising that a browser which re…
Right that most of these aren't surprises individually, and right that nobody wants a permission prompt for Accept-Language. The argument isn't that you should, it's that the combination is enough to identify you across sites without your awareness, and that the wider tracking ecosystem trades on that bundle. The piece is editorial about the thing existing, not a proposal to gate every header. Reasonable to push back if you find the bundle isn't the point.