Yes, I'm on a MacBook Air in Eastern Time and I speak English. I'd have told the website that myself if they had asked it.
Eastern Time, USA, or closer to Bangladesh?
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
#152Maybe it's just because I am old, or have worked on internet software for almost 30 years, but none of this seems surprising or even concerning? Someone sets up a server that accepts connections to it and then someone sends a connection request to it. There has been no agreement on anything, no expectations or rules established. No one forces the server to accept any connection request it gets, and no one forces some…
Browser volunteering an angle at which I'm holding my phone is a bit surprising.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#153Maybe it's just because I am old, or have worked on internet software for almost 30 years, but none of this seems surprising or even concerning? Someone sets up a server that accepts connections to it and then someone sends a connection request to it. There has been no agreement on anything, no expectations or rules established. No one forces the server to accept any connection request it gets, and no one forces some…
Maybe it's because I'm idealistic in addition to being old, but I think a lot of this functionality was in fact added for explicit purposes.
A client sends the language header or the list of supported fonts not so that the server can "do whatever they want with this data." There is (or was) a real reason for it when we came up with these standards.
The fact that website providers, or more specifically ad-networks, have chosen to use these for other purposes is breaking that implicit agreement.
(edit) but you're probably right that i'm expecting too much.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#154At least it doesn't know my age Oh wait
Netscape user.
Always a giveaway.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#155I am once again asking privacy advocates to try sounding normal for once. Trying to make a browser accessing your timezone sound nefarious isn't going to convince anyone of anything.
> Trying to make a browser accessing your timezone sound nefarious isn't going to convince anyone of anything.
But I am the only person in this timezone in the world. It uniquely identified me!
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#156* 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?
The amount of fingerprinting this page reveals pales in comparison to what actually happens in the wild
its ease is also vastly inflated. If it was as simple as this site makes it out to be, companies like fingerprint.com don't exist.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#157Maybe it's just because I am old, or have worked on internet software for almost 30 years, but none of this seems surprising or even concerning? Someone sets up a server that accepts connections to it and then someone sends a connection request to it. There has been no agreement on anything, no expectations or rules established. No one forces the server to accept any connection request it gets, and no one forces some…
My students are essentially forced to use MS services. So... there is that.
So am I, come to think of it.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#158Maybe it's just because I am old, or have worked on internet software for almost 30 years, but none of this seems surprising or even concerning? Someone sets up a server that accepts connections to it and then someone sends a connection request to it. There has been no agreement on anything, no expectations or rules established. No one forces the server to accept any connection request it gets, and no one forces some…
Browser volunteering an angle at which I'm holding my phone is a bit surprising.
Why? Some web apps might want to present a different interface if you’re in landscape.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
The 39 GB number is a bug. I was reading quota (browser allow-up-to ceiling) and calling it "allocated." Fixed; pushing now. Contrast is intentional but I hear you. not changing it but noted, and a cleaner reading mode is on the to-do later.
Contrast is a violation of accessibility guidelines.
This site is already violating your privacy. Do you think they care about your accessibility needs?
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#160Whether 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/
> Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking. Gotta love Firefox with ublock origin in advanced mode, even without JavaScript disabled so the site worked.
uMatrix + NoScript personally (yes, seems silly, but I find NoScript's UI more convenient for script toggling, while liking uMatrix's fine grained controls)
Did you enable firefox resist fingerprinting? Also maybe letterboxing, which I think is not enabled by that flag by default, and also helps with CSS fingerprinting.