This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
dude be careful, right now your house is probably broadcasting a street address.
the mailman that drops your mail off? he knows
We sent a SYN-ACK packet and YOU acknowledged it, confirming you are not spoofing YOUR IP address. Now WE share the same sequence number. Most sites do not tell you this is happening.
Compare this to Google's homepage, which is clean, wholesome, friendly, and inviting.
It really looks ai-generated. It even contains mistakes like saying that my 5yo phone model with low resolution is a high end device. All the text is pretty "generic" and sloppy
Tbh, a five year old phone can absolutely be high end. Mine is four years old and I absolutely consider it high end.
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.
Yeah, a bit overly ominous. But my mom doesn't know that's how IP addresses work. And if it scares a bit more privacy mindedness into her, good.
Very useful site. Thanks for posting this.
Laughing my ass off reading through this. The sanctimonious and passive aggressive threatening tone is perfect for how much info it got wrong just because I use Firefox and an adblock. YOUR BROWSER DIDN'T TELL US ANYTHING ABOUT THIS, LIKELY BECAUSE ITS FIREFOX. BUT THAT MEANS WE KNOW YOU USE FIREFOX AND WE ARE CHOOSING TO BE SAFE WITH THAT INFO, YOURE WELCOME, PWNED!!!11!1111!1
Teaching people about fingerprinting and how important understanding it is for personal privacy is good, but acting like a 4chan script kiddy group and making bizarre empty threats like you're mr robot ain't it, dawg.
From other comments this is likely some AI slop to sell a product, but if they're serious they come off like they just slept through sec+ and think they're shadow brokers now lmao
On a bog standard phone with dns blocking and nothing more, it was able to identify a lot of information. Some pieces of information I didn't realize are sent to websites when I visit them. It's a good demonstration of fingerprinting.
Similar results with NoScript.
This volume requires JavaScript. That is part of the point — your browser is what is being read.
With JavaScript off, the page cannot tell you what your browser disclosed. The data is still there. The disclosure still happened. Only the telling of it stops.
The fact that they're stopped from "the telling" says a lot about their abilities, but not much about "the disclosure".
I imagine it was just stuff collected in most server logs: IP Address, user agent string... I'm not too concerned, really.
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.
Now instead of cutting it off send fake data so it looks like your phone is in a blender.
Weird, this user's gyro says the phone is angled at the entire Doom source code
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.
Doesn't seem to be anything new here than what's we already know:
Just with a more ominous tone. Is it any wonder people are afraid of technology?
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 says I'm on Chrome, I'm not.
Also, so what if you know my IP, that isn't sensitive information.
It's good to bring attention to this stuff but at the same time there's no point getting too worried about it.
Fingerprinting is real and we know it. Not because of the site but because every software dev I know who works in a net startup tells me that they do the basics and more. They won't talk about the more.
What are you using? Firefox?
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 side that just pulls your user-agent would seem amazing to them.
This is bullshit marketing for their bullshit vibe coding.
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?
I think that refers to localStorage not cookies.
Time zone has no info about where I actually am. Sure, I'm in a particular vertical slice of the earth. I have the JP keyboard downloaded, but you're wrong, that doesn't mean I speak Japanese. In fact, I speak French but your cookie reading didn't pick that up.
It is genuinely interesting what info gets passed to websites but the doomy tone is rather silly and will unnecessarily worry people who don't know much about computers/Internet, which is the majority of users.
My time zone is quite specific and has only about 500,000 people in it
Assuming it’s tz database timezones then they can be relatively specific. Since the slices are based around laws governing current time, there’s hundreds of slices rather than just a couple dozen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones Alongside things like keyboard downloaded it means you can be uniquely fingerprinted (or close to unique) pretty easily, which means they can then associate all sorts of other information with you
Your graphics processor identified itself as or similar.
Ah yes, Or similar, great GPU, love it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are multiple sites like this, for example clickclickclick.click has been around for 10 years (not optimized for mobile)
I opened it in Firefox and Librewolf just to see how the information sent was different. Librewolf obfuscated the following which Firefox disclosed:
Time zone
Monitor resolution
GPU used
Also, the Firefox one said I moved my cursor such-and-such times, while the Librewolf one said my finger moved such-and-such times. Must be related to hiding what screen I'm using. I'm on desktop.
Firefox on mobile obscured GPU.
"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."
