Show HN: Everything a web page can learn about you, in plain English
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Show HN: Everything a web page can learn about you, in plain English
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#2My connection type being inferred as 4G may finally motivate me to do something about this Wifi.
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#4My connection type being inferred as 4G may finally motivate me to do something about this Wifi.
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#5Putting the plain-English finding before its 383 raw fields makes the fingerprinting risk legible without hiding the underlying measurements.
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#6A lot of this is just wrong; the only things they got right is that I can read English and I have an iPhone.
I’m surprised it got my timezone and location wrong. I’m less surprised they miscounted the number of speakers and my brand of gpu so confidently.
A big problem with being so wrong is I can’t use this to show anyone how tracking works online, because this is nothing like how tracking is actually done on line.
On the other hand, it’s a great advertisement for Apple.
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#8> plugins [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object]0 ms
This part is broken
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#9Always wondered why websites need to know about my battery status
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#10> plugins [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object]0 ms This part is broken
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