Trying this in Lynx I'm surprised it didn't at least get some information from me in the request headers. You don't need JavaScript to pull things out of them.
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
#122> You came here from news.ycombinator.com. Your browser told us the address of the page you were reading before this one. Every link you follow tells the destination where you were. The page you just left knows you left. This page knows where you came from. Neither was asked.
I thought this didn't work anymore and browsers left out the referer in the case of https, is that not so then?
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#123> You came here from news.ycombinator.com. Your browser told us the address of the page you were reading before this one. Every link you follow tells the destination where you were. The page you just left knows you left. This page knows where you came from. Neither was asked. I thought this didn't work anymore and browsers left out the referer in the case of https, is that not so then?
I believe you only lose the referer header when switching between http and https.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Same ID for mine. Are you running Firefox? Maybe that's a lie it tells to fingerprinters.
I am running Firefox. Firefox does not report you GPU according to the site, instead returning a generic "Mozilla" GPU.
More of you should be running current Firefox. It actually has serious engineering work going into protecting you from web tracking.
I work for a team entirely dependent on web tracking for Fraud prevention. The things Firefox does work to protect you and make our job harder. They genuinely make it harder for websites to track you.
Other things that genuinely help: Apple private relay. Some VPNs. Generated unique credit cards.
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#126The text legibility of the gray on black is a serious problem. My eyes aren't that bad but I can barely read this.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's terrible about them?
They track us around the web.
But anybody knows (in tech I mean) that a browser client leak a lot of things and sustained tracking is easy even cross-browsers (and cross-devices too with more advanced techniques), including history (easy to know which websites were visited with timing analysis in loops and iteration), it falls on the responsibility of the user to achieve privacy, but it requires heavy sacrifices that frankly most users are not willing to do, fingerprint.com is really basic and doesn't go to a great length at all actually to track users (fortunately).
Reality is that most do not care about privacy (look at the number of Google users, even developers themselves who are completely aware of it and continue to "embrace" the mass tracking). There is also the mass brainwashing which is an issue where people that use VPNs think that they are anonymous and this is terrifying to think (thank you NordVPN non-sense, which also use Google Analytics which then correlate entire traffic later-on, what a joke).
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#128Whether 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.
Did you specifically re-enable javascript? Ublock origin on medium mode blocks all the tracking javascript and I'd think advanced would follow the same basic starting point.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#129An instant loading page without animations and more contrast would have been more fun. The fact that it begins with my IP address reminds me of those dubious VPN ads. City is wrong, I may speak English but it's not my native language. As other people said, there are much better pages showing you your browser fingerprint.
And like most people discussing these things, you entirely miss the point.
It doesn't matter whether you actually speak english natively or not, nobody cares about the actual values. Web sites don't actually care whether you have a robust font package in some way to discern whether you are a font hipster or something, they are just collecting signals.
What matters is that your physical machine and web browser combo report these values about the same way every single time they are probed, and that is used to reliably track YOU, uniquely, with great accuracy, with EVERYTHING you do on the internet, every site you visit, every mouse movement, every purchase linked back to you.
Everything.
The actual values don't have to match "reality" in any way. It's just about generating bits of signal about your setup.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#130Update: 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 thro…
But why don't you show real tracking capabilities? Not what's accessible via the browser directly and legally :/