A 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.…
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#12Holy crap, that is a surprising amount of info. I knew about browser and hardware fingerprinting already, but measuring my typing speed, the time I spend on the page, and how much I scroll was definitely not on the list.
Thank you for this, it's inspired me to look into ways I can protect our privacy.
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#13Always wondered why websites need to know about my battery status
Websites could use it to implement less power consuming behavior when you are low on power, e.g. defaulting to run an expensive computation when requested instead of automatically.
Ignoring browser fingerprinting, it seems like most of these signals could be used to implement some feature benefiting the user.
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#14Always wondered why websites need to know about my battery status
Websites could use it to implement less power consuming behavior when you are low on power, e.g. defaulting to run an expensive computation when requested instead of automatically. Ignoring browser fingerprinting, it seems like most of these signals could be used to implement some feature benefiting the user.
Oh were we naive ...
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#15Always wondered why websites need to know about my battery status
If they are too aggressive with their bitcoin mining, you might not come back.