Show HN: Everything a web page can learn about you, in plain English

17 pointsposted a day ago
by oddurs
(sessioncontext.org)

9 Comments

79a6ed87

13 hours ago

> plugins [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object]0 ms

This part is broken

ToriTech

4 hours ago

Holy 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.

mooktakim

12 hours ago

Always wondered why websites need to know about my battery status

pveierland

4 hours ago

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.

Zecc

3 hours ago

If they are too aggressive with their bitcoin mining, you might not come back.

marten31

a day ago

Putting the plain-English finding before its 383 raw fields makes the fingerprinting risk legible without hiding the underlying measurements.

kylecazar

a day ago

My connection type being inferred as 4G may finally motivate me to do something about this Wifi.

geocar

18 hours ago

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.

On the other hand, it’s a great advertisement for Apple.