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A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 16 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The location is off by about fifty miles. It didn't get my GPU or battery level. Everything else is stuff that doesn't matter. Firefox browser, English, android device. I am not terribly impressed.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You're right, and same for me, but what if you'd never considered any of this before and are new to the idea of privacy? I expect it would then give you pause for thought.

    Sure, it's a gimmick site. But it serves a useful purpose for those who don't know about the topic. Which is probably the majority of users.

    Despite my own experience: TIL the tilt angle of my phone is available to websites.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I guess I was mostly put off by the sensationalism. Everything is saturated with it these days.

    You made an interesting point though, about people being new to this. I'm an old man. The internet wasn't even a thing until I was in my early teens. It was sort of a Wild West situation for a while there and guarding personal info was the norm. But these days information gathering is built into every device, website, app, etc. To people growing up with this now it probably seems like it's just the way things are done and nothing to worry about. I can see it being useful for pointing that out. I think it would be more useful though if it focused more on showing how to counteract these things, rather than just being scary.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Try Deviceinfo.me

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Now that one goes after a whole lot more info than the other. I was pretty happy to see the amount of "unknown" and "permission not granted or denied" responses though.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    That's not necessarily great either though, because that "unknown" becomes your unique fingerprint that almost no one else has. Ideally you to have spoofed information with the most common parameters, or even better, randomized ones.

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