There’s one thing this site gets wrong. And it’s central for their mission to correct that. Because I guess everyone else does get that wrong, too. Very likely including those guys who do the profiling (although their wage probably depends on not realizing that mistake):
You do not need cookie banners to ask for consent to set a cookie. You are required to ask for consent to process people’s information, to profile them, stalk them, fingerprint them. Cookies are one of the ways to do that. But not the only way.
This site - as basically every other site using ad providers - did all of this without asking for consent, but was required to ask. At least for visitors from the EU (like me). It didn’t matter that they didn’t use any cookies for it. They need to ask and they need to respect a rejection. It’s also not ok to do it and just say that everyone else does so, too.
That’s the message that should come across. Not “hey look what we can do without cookies”. It’s “hey, cookies are a scapegoat. We don’t need them. We’d have to ask for consent but since everyone is so preoccupied with cookies, we just didn’t. Like all this ad tech companies spying on you didn’t ask, too. They should be held accountable.”
Nice machine, by the way. a Linux box (of course it is).
Well now either that’s passive-aggressive or aggressive-passive.
Similar thing here: https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken
my location was blank at least, thanks vpn
Why don’t we have a plugin that randomizes all of the fingerprinting data? Anything you type gets copy/pasted into the site after you finish typing so you don’t leave typing info for the site to read etc. Or we could try to set all browsers to report the exact same information which ruins the premise of fingerprinting.
The tor browser aims for the latter approach
I believe Politecookies should be the default standard.
It misprofiled me, so I guess I’m chuffed?
The important thing is that every site is misprofiling you the same way, which doesn’t actually help you. Your fingerprint just has a distinctive scar across it
Hm, I see…
You are in or near Sacramento
I am over 70 miles away from Sacramento. How is it that far off of my actual city?
It detected a bunch of databases running on localhost. Which is weird because although all of the DBs it detected are present in my network, they’re not on localhost. How did it figure that out?
Port scanning, Steam does it to track everything on your network.
https://github.com/ACK-J/Port_Authority
As an add-on it’ll let you know when a website tries and blocks but you can allow.
And this is why i ssh tunnel into my local services.
Neat.
WebRTC handed us your public IP directly: 0.0.0.0.
Well that doesn’t seem right I really wish I could just tell my computer to stop handing over all this information for no fucking reason
Technically interesting, at the same time a bit far fetched with calculations that do not make much sense. For example they say that the resolution I use is rare and that the Do Not Tracl feature is off, makes it even rarer.
However, this is just a regular iphone with regular Safari. Based on those two factors, you cannot determine a user, as they are too broad, even in combination with others.
So yeah, fun numbers, fun to see how much information the browser exposes to the server, just to increase comfort.
