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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
#302Whoever made this page, you need to rip out the fade in animation.
I lasted 4 seconds on your page.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#303I 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.
That's what helped L figure out Kira was in Japan, and likely a student given the times of deaths, in Death Note. Ruled out 7.8 billion people in one step
I really enjoyed this comment! The right intersection of everything to fire reward receptors in my brain lol.
Edit: "fire reward receptors in my brain" is probably nonsense scientifically but hopefully it gets the point across
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#304* 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?
yeah it told me I'm "in Los Angeles" but that's just the time zone I'm in. It also "thinks" that because I have two different languages as inputs that it has scored some kind of "gotcha", but I just happen to also frequently use a second language . "English · Chinese Your browser’s primary language is English. It also carries Chinese. This tells us not just what language you speak, but often where you were raised, wh…
We will show you the Chinese LA. adds anyway just to be sure.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#305Huh? The user mwheelz seems to have been [dead]'d in the time this post has been on the front page. If I look at their comments page, those posted more than 46 minutes ago (at the time of writing) are normally visible and the rest are [dead]. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mwheelz Mods, is there something we should know? Is there maybe a reason to stay away from the linked website?
Huhh?? Oh dear, ok but it's because they ai generated everything to make a poor copy of other websites.
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Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#306I 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.
> You prefer dark interfaces — your operating system told us. oOoOohh my settings worked as intended, spooky!
But you sacrificed some of your 33 bits of anonymity to have this setting work as intended. And that isn't strictly necessary: the web could have been engineered so that the selection of light or dark styles takes effect in a way undetectable to a web site.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#307* 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?
> * Since you can detect light mode, would it kill you to honor it?
The problem is that "light mode" tends to be the default when there has actually not been a user preference made. In Firefox with tracking protection its even sent when enhanced tracking protection is enabled instead of doing the sensible thing and indicating no preference.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Surely you can infer when you work and sleep from your experience living your life as you. Not everybody has a schedule. Mine is essentially "eat when hungry, sleep when tired", and my sleep patterns more closely follow a 26-hour day than a 24-hour day.
This is fascinating, please do tell more about it! How does it affect your mental health? How do you deal with times day and night are flipped? How does it affect your social life?
Take a look at https://reddit.com/r/n24 if you're interested in more "typical" experiences from people like this (I am one).
It tends to take a significant toll on one's mental (and physical) health, regardless of whether the sibling commenter has "considered it" or not.
Re: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
#309Maybe 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…
> There has been no agreement on anything, no expectations or rules established.
Yes, there has been one expectation: DNT (Do Not Track) header, sent with every request, which should be respected.