They’re really playing up the ominous tone.
“We know this because your IP address — xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx — was the first thing your device sent us. We know the rest of it. We chose not to display it. Most pages would not have made that choice. We did not ask for your location. Your address arrived before you did.”
Uh, yeah. That’s how IP addresses work.
I am pretty sure 90% of the people using the Internet don’t know what an IP address is.
Obvious, the address of where you pee.
No, it’s where I pee…. It’s not a UP address
127.0.0.1
What is the address of everywhere?
Language and dark mode setting are also funny. Yes, I literally want to share those preferences so you don’t serve me a blinding white website in hebrew. What a hacker you are.
Didn’t realize my phone sent it’s rotation data without promoting, everything else is kind of needed to send me info.
My IP
My screen size
My interactions with the page
Yeah, the rotation was a bit of a surprise to me. Doesn’t seem like Waterfox has a setting to disable that, so I just disabled my browser’s access to the accelerometer and gyros entirely.
I wasn’t aware about the thing with fonts.
This is lame as shit. The tone of the writing is going to get non-tech people feeling quite dismissive, or scared enough to seek out surface level info, which just rolls back into feeling dismissive. It’s actually really stupid because they’re clearly driving fear, but hardly touch the real thing to be scared of. Fingerprinting is barely mentioned, it’s only really addressed once, in the font identification section. The issue with all these data points is how they can be collected and correlated across the web - it basically means fuck-all if it’s only from one page.
edit: On top of that, each data point is presented as some sort of horrible catastrophe, when some are completely benign. Barely addressing why some points actually matter, or not at all. (Like click/touch data, it’s needed for site functionality, but it gets creepy when that data is used for things like psychological profiling)
Even more disappointing because the formatting/appearance is more than clean enough to share with basically anyone. Yet the tone and focus makes that out of the question. What a waste of time to make this.
sooooo reading a browsers user-agent is now a thing to worry about? oh look I changed my user-agent and now this dumb ass site is giving all the wrong info woulda look at that.
“We know where you are based on your IP” yeah bro, that’s how IP’s work. look i turned on mullvad, omg now it says i’m in Sweden!
“we know you’re using an AMD gpu” gasp ya don’t say. oh look I changed my user-agent again and now you think I’m on nvidia, crazy how that works huh?
This is a dumb bullshit site.
oh look it’s built by these morons: https://riseuplabs.app/ a company that vibe codes every “product” they have. so naturally building a stupid site that just pulls your user-agent would seem amazing to them.
This is bullshit marketing for their bullshit vibe coding. report this post, it’s an ad.
Your finger moved 273 times. You tapped 14 times.
I’m sorry what?
Since they went into the effort to make this sound so ominous, it’d be cool to see some actual inferences from the data points. For example it would be pretty easy to tell you are behind a VPN and your real location is probably xyz.
They knew i was on a vpn and the time zone, your phone just gives that shit up
Dont even get me started on “experimental” browser flags that come default on some browsers
Heheh, a whole lot of mocking in this thread, but I don’t mind the site / its display.
Yeah, it’s overly melodramatic in its setup, and a bunch of the information doomerism is silly in terms of the info basically being required to provide data comms etc. It also tends to get things a bit wrong in a few categories – like for me, it said I was in a totally different city (still the right country at least - Canada), then it said my time zone was in iceland, which is kinda… no.
But the general message of the site, and the awareness its trying to raise in regards to how much data gets shared for basic comms establishment, and how that information gets used to fingerprint people, is worthwhile.
It got the country wrong for me. I didn’t use a VPN or anything. So that’s good I guess.
Hm, wonder why that’d be – it implies heavily that it bases the country on the IP address, which in theory is done by looking at what company the address is registered to, for the most part. Like I’m guessing it got my city wrong, because it used an address that the ISP provides for the IP range, which isn’t the same as the city I’m in, because the ISP uses it to cover numerous cities around the broader region. I reckon if you’re using something like Starlink, or other similar international-ish provider that may be very loose in how they associated addresses, it’d fail most times.
I was on mobile data, who knows where the mobile network gets their connection from
Ah, makes some sense. The mobile networks are even more erratic with how they assign IPs – though I’d still be a little surprised if it was the wrong country entirely. It’d imply the provider is using IPs from a single range in multiple legal jurisdictions, which’d inherently make things like geofencing more difficult. Sorta like VPN functionality to access foreign data regions, as a result of sloppy configuration and negligence by the ISP. Wonder if it could also be something to do with IPV6 – I think that’s more common to see amongst mobile networks, and I’m honestly not too sure how well that can get mapped to geo locations – I’d doubt the site, how its put together, would be tryin too hard to sort that out.
It got my location wrong. It got my GPU wrong. It said I never left the tab, even though I left it to start this comment. It said I moved my cursor 111 times in 74 seconds, which is absolutely false.
That site is just pointless. Pretty much the only things it got right were my time zone and my browser.
In my case it was incredibly accurate, except for one detail; the wire said I moved my finger over 600 times which… Seems hyperbolic.
Ridiculously accurate forme, tried across multiple browsers.
Gyro, screensize, battery are all causes for concern. I have firefox with ublock and ss and it was able to see all except the gpu and battery.
It also says I have Azerbaijani on my phone somewhere. I have no idea where that came from.
Lol it says I have a “recent, high end device”… It’s a Samsung that’s old enough to be in the third grade.
Only thing that’s missing is a bunch of threats with a Bitcoin address at the bottom.
I’m guessing it has inferred that (wrongly) from your screen size and resolution.
That’s not a great datapoint, if that’s the case, there’s 2015 phones that are unnecessarily 4K (right when 4K TVs were becoming popular)
We know your full name, blood type, and that your left elbow is itching a bit right now. Your browser told us. But we’re choosing to not show you. We also know what you did on July 14, 2018.
They just told me, you should be ashamed
Your browser accepts cookies. Websites can write small files to your device that persist after you leave — files that identify you when you return, that follow you across sites, that remember what you looked at, what you almost bought, and how long you hesitated. We have not written one. Your browser would let this page write up to 10 GB to your device — a private room, ours alone, like the one given to every site you visit.
Hol up … 10 GB?
Very useful site. Thanks for posting this.
There are multiple sites like this, for example clickclickclick.click has been around for 10 years (not optimized for mobile)
Well I am happy with my results… You ain’t gettin shit
I couldn’t help but notice this is volume 4. Where and what are the other volumes out of mad curiosity?
It’s a light version of what websites apps collect
