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Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

wlesieutre wrote: post #81
troyvit wrote: post #33

> Your graphics processor identified itself as or similar. That checks out. I think what I have is similar to a graphics card but isn't quite.

My GPU identification is off by about a decade but it did get the brand right

Seriously. My laptop was manufactured last year, and the site identified it as a Radeon R9 200 series. That was a top-of-the-line GPU...back in 2014.

Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

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Post by ygjb »

mikeocool wrote: post #79

As far as this website reports, I'm undistinguishable from most other Mac users in Brooklyn, New York. Seems like it's not actually highlighting the frightening aspects of fingerprint.

Yeah, your browser fingerprint might be a needle in a needlestack. You might not be able to distinguish one needle from another needle easily, but if you have enough needle samples you can start to identify what the needles are pointing at. Data aggregators collect enough pseudo-indistinguishable needles to be able to disambiguate and associate them with a known identity or cohort. For example, your mobile browser might be indistinguishable from most other Mac users in Brooklyn, but your mobile browser might be the only one running on a device from an IP address that regularly logs a meal in MyFitnessPal at that Starbucks wi-fi before making Apple Pay/Google Wallet purchase, hits the next 8 stops on the train before connecting to the same cell tower at the narrow window as you enter your office (telling on myself a bit, tho I am in Vancouver, not Brooklyn).

Span this across all of your movements and activities across multiple aggregators and it's a trail of movement through a fog of data that is fuzzy, but enough to identify you, or a small cohort of similar users.

Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

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Post by mmooss »

RHSeeger wrote: post #77

> We did not ask for your location. Your address arrived before you did. Bunk. You asked a geolocation api/service to map my ip address back to a location. You _did_ ask for my location, using my IP as a key. And my IP is pretty much required in order for communication on the internet to work (outside of using services to hide it, but then _they_ have your info instead).

> my IP is pretty much required in order for communication on the internet to work (outside of using services to hide it, but then _they_ have your info instead).

Tor and similar multi-hop proxies, depending on construction, supposedly can't match source to destination IPs.

Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

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Post by m4ck_ »

karmakaze wrote: post #82

Whether or not the information is accurate isn't really the point. It's that it serves as a way to identify you even without cookies. I looked for better websites, the EFF one[0] is informative. My browser fingerprint was unique among the visitors in the past 45 days. [0] https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

If i run that (or similar sites) multiple times, shouldn't I like.. not be unique each time?

Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

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Post by internet2000 »

karmakaze wrote: post #82

Whether or not the information is accurate isn't really the point. It's that it serves as a way to identify you even without cookies. I looked for better websites, the EFF one[0] is informative. My browser fingerprint was unique among the visitors in the past 45 days. [0] https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

"It doesn't matter that the FUD isn't accurate" Hmm.
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