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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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A web page that shows you everything the browser told it (sinceyouarrived.world)

submitted 4 days ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] eureka@aussie.zone 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm glad it acknowledges explains the impacts of anti-fingerprinting measures. I've seen some others assume that a random canvas is unique rather than one of the many people randomising it the same way, leading to a false "unique" assessment.

Your browser appears to be returning the viewport in place of the real screen — anti-fingerprinting at work. The substitution is itself distinctive.

Your browser masked your graphics processor. Firefox and Safari have started returning generic strings — "Mozilla", "Apple", "or similar" — instead of the real renderer. The fact that yours did so tells us, with reasonable confidence, which browser you are running. The mask is also a fingerprint.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I like that they covered all the possibilities for the do not track flag, as I saw it as useless from the very start, as by then I realized the honour system didn't mean shit and it would just be another piece of data.