Technology

Very useful site. Thanks for posting this.

Your browser accepts cookies. Websites can write small files to your device that persist after you leave — files that identify you when you return, that follow you across sites, that remember what you looked at, what you almost bought, and how long you hesitated. We have not written one. Your browser would let this page write up to 10 GB to your device — a private room, ours alone, like the one given to every site you visit.

Hol up ... 10 GB?

It got my location wrong. It got my GPU wrong. It said I never left the tab, even though I left it to start this comment. It said I moved my cursor 111 times in 74 seconds, which is absolutely false.

That site is just pointless. Pretty much the only things it got right were my time zone and my browser.

Heheh, a whole lot of mocking in this thread, but I don't mind the site / its display.

Yeah, it's overly melodramatic in its setup, and a bunch of the information doomerism is silly in terms of the info basically being required to provide data comms etc. It also tends to get things a bit wrong in a few categories -- like for me, it said I was in a totally different city (still the right country at least - Canada), then it said my time zone was in iceland, which is kinda... no.

But the general message of the site, and the awareness its trying to raise in regards to how much data gets shared for basic comms establishment, and how that information gets used to fingerprint people, is worthwhile.

Time zone has no info about where I actually am. Sure, I'm in a particular vertical slice of the earth. I have the JP keyboard downloaded, but you're wrong, that doesn't mean I speak Japanese. In fact, I speak French but your cookie reading didn't pick that up.

It is genuinely interesting what info gets passed to websites but the doomy tone is rather silly and will unnecessarily worry people who don't know much about computers/Internet, which is the majority of users.

I opened it in Firefox and Librewolf just to see how the information sent was different. Librewolf obfuscated the following which Firefox disclosed:

Time zone

Monitor resolution

GPU used

Also, the Firefox one said I moved my cursor such-and-such times, while the Librewolf one said my finger moved such-and-such times. Must be related to hiding what screen I'm using. I'm on desktop.

They're really playing up the ominous tone.

"We know this because your IP address — xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx — was the first thing your device sent us. We know the rest of it. We chose not to display it. Most pages would not have made that choice. We did not ask for your location. Your address arrived before you did."

Uh, yeah. That's how IP addresses work.

There are multiple sites like this, for example clickclickclick.click has been around for 10 years (not optimized for mobile)

Laughing my ass off reading through this. The sanctimonious and passive aggressive threatening tone is perfect for how much info it got wrong just because I use Firefox and an adblock. YOUR BROWSER DIDN'T TELL US ANYTHING ABOUT THIS, LIKELY BECAUSE ITS FIREFOX. BUT THAT MEANS WE KNOW YOU USE FIREFOX AND WE ARE CHOOSING TO BE SAFE WITH THAT INFO, YOURE WELCOME, PWNED!!!11!1111!1

Teaching people about fingerprinting and how important understanding it is for personal privacy is good, but acting like a 4chan script kiddy group and making bizarre empty threats like you're mr robot ain't it, dawg.

From other comments this is likely some AI slop to sell a product, but if they're serious they come off like they just slept through sec+ and think they're shadow brokers now lmao

This is lame as shit. The tone of the writing is going to get non-tech people feeling quite dismissive, or scared enough to seek out surface level info, which just rolls back into feeling dismissive. It's actually really stupid because they're clearly driving fear, but hardly touch the real thing to be scared of. Fingerprinting is barely mentioned, it's only really addressed once, in the font identification section. The issue with all these data points is how they can be collected and correlated across the web - it basically means fuck-all if it's only from one page.

edit: On top of that, each data point is presented as some sort of horrible catastrophe, when some are completely benign. Barely addressing why some points actually matter, or not at all. (Like click/touch data, it's needed for site functionality, but it gets creepy when that data is used for things like psychological profiling)

Even more disappointing because the formatting/appearance is more than clean enough to share with basically anyone. Yet the tone and focus makes that out of the question. What a waste of time to make this.

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

Doesn't seem to be anything new here than what's we already know:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint
• https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Just with a more ominous tone. Is it any wonder people are afraid of technology?

sooooo reading a browsers user-agent is now a thing to worry about? oh look I changed my user-agent and now this dumb ass site is giving all the wrong info woulda look at that.

"We know where you are based on your IP" yeah bro, that's how IP's work. look i turned on mullvad, omg now it says i'm in Sweden!

"we know you're using an AMD gpu" gasp ya don't say. oh look I changed my user-agent again and now you think I'm on nvidia, crazy how that works huh?

This is a dumb bullshit site.

oh look it's built by these morons: https://riseuplabs.app/ a company that vibe codes every "product" they have. so naturally building a stupid site that just pulls your user-agent would seem amazing to them.

This is bullshit marketing for their bullshit vibe coding. report this post, it's an ad.

Your graphics processor identified itself as or similar.

Ah yes, Or similar, great GPU, love it.

Your finger moved 273 times. You tapped 14 times.

I'm sorry what?

Since they went into the effort to make this sound so ominous, it'd be cool to see some actual inferences from the data points. For example it would be pretty easy to tell you are behind a VPN and your real location is probably xyz.