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Didn't realize my phone sent it's rotation data without promoting, everything else is kind of needed to send me info.
My IP
My screen size
My interactions with the page
Yeah, the rotation was a bit of a surprise to me. Doesn't seem like Waterfox has a setting to disable that, so I just disabled my browser's access to the accelerometer and gyros entirely.
Now instead of cutting it off send fake data so it looks like your phone is in a blender.
Weird, this user's gyro says the phone is angled at the entire Doom source code
I find it weird that the web operator decided to make it so rotation data only is publicly shown if your phone is actually laying down. Because if you're holding it in the standard position, it doesn't even announce that it collects it.
I wasn't aware about the thing with fonts.