Why did it get my GPU wrong?
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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Wildly inaccurate for me.
Got me to disable sendrefererheader. We'll see if that breaks anything....
Looks like it doesn’t know shit about me. Just that I am on an iPhone and my general location from the IP. Not surprising at all.
Maybe this is more thrilling for android users?
Nothing exceptional here, except it did know I was on an android. Guess its time to change all my passwords lol.
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Well, it got my internet provider and where I lived wrong and everything else was technical stuff that would make sense for a website to know to serve me a website.