This is neat.
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@RockyC Well .... it got most details things wrong, and was only in general stuff vageuly correct ... so if that is significant for every visitor I guess we are still a bit safe without the cookies.
@GoblinQuester It doesn't matter if the details are wrong. What matters is that they are consistent. That allows them to build a profile and follow you regardless.
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This is neat. A handy demo of how you can be identified and tracked across the Internet without a single cookie ever being set in your browser.
I didn't set a cookie. https://kuber.studio/cookie/
@RockyC I've tested it with Tor-Browser on Linux and Android. I got
"roughly 1 in 120.0 million browsers look like yours."
in both cases.Did anybody else try with Tor-Browser?
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This is neat. A handy demo of how you can be identified and tracked across the Internet without a single cookie ever being set in your browser.
I didn't set a cookie. https://kuber.studio/cookie/
@RockyC
It said "this page asked for zero permissions." That's an outright lie. It asked to create a webGL context, which my browser (Librewolf) let me decline.And it got a lot wrong, including my computer type, public IP address, screen resolution (twice) and trackpad. So I'll sleep OK tonight.
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This is neat. A handy demo of how you can be identified and tracked across the Internet without a single cookie ever being set in your browser.
I didn't set a cookie. https://kuber.studio/cookie/
It is impressive, but I dislike how the ideas are expressed.
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@RockyC I've tested it with Tor-Browser on Linux and Android. I got
"roughly 1 in 120.0 million browsers look like yours."
in both cases.Did anybody else try with Tor-Browser?
@ingo_wichmann I got 1 in 130 million on Zen with Privacy Badger and UBlock Origin installed, and 1 in 120.6 million on FireDragon. Interesting.
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@RockyC
It said "this page asked for zero permissions." That's an outright lie. It asked to create a webGL context, which my browser (Librewolf) let me decline.And it got a lot wrong, including my computer type, public IP address, screen resolution (twice) and trackpad. So I'll sleep OK tonight.
@drewph Technically, Librewolf did the asking, not the web page.
It doesn't matter that the data is wrong, only that it is unique and identifiable. They can still track you across websites and build a profile. I set Librewolf to its strictest mode, reloaded the page, and it welcomed me back to my second visit.
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This is neat. A handy demo of how you can be identified and tracked across the Internet without a single cookie ever being set in your browser.
I didn't set a cookie. https://kuber.studio/cookie/
@RockyC hth do I have that many text-to-speech voices?!
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This is neat. A handy demo of how you can be identified and tracked across the Internet without a single cookie ever being set in your browser.
I didn't set a cookie. https://kuber.studio/cookie/
@RockyC Really, anybody's is still impressed by that?
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@GoblinQuester It doesn't matter if the details are wrong. What matters is that they are consistent. That allows them to build a profile and follow you regardless.
@RockyC True dat, if it is consistent ...
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the test on webpage doesn't seem to work with me. It just keeps reloading. I'm guessing its my browsers privacy settings stopping it
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@Flying_SquirrelOG @mherbert And if you use noscript, it doesn't load at all.
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@drewph Technically, Librewolf did the asking, not the web page.
It doesn't matter that the data is wrong, only that it is unique and identifiable. They can still track you across websites and build a profile. I set Librewolf to its strictest mode, reloaded the page, and it welcomed me back to my second visit.
@RockyC
So presumably the answer is to randomise things frequently - like reporting a fake resolution, a different platform, frequent change of VPN location, etc. -
@Flying_SquirrelOG @mherbert And if you use noscript, it doesn't load at all.
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This is neat. A handy demo of how you can be identified and tracked across the Internet without a single cookie ever being set in your browser.
I didn't set a cookie. https://kuber.studio/cookie/
@RockyC Most of the comments are about the tool not working correctly or portrayed wrong. Yes it might be the case if you are into privacy and stuff but once think from a perspective of an average internet user with little to no knowledge about privacy. If you show it to them they will surely get interested and look into privacy.
Kudos to the developers
will surely incorporate this into our next awareness session.
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@RockyC
So presumably the answer is to randomise things frequently - like reporting a fake resolution, a different platform, frequent change of VPN location, etc.@drewph That's what I was thinking.
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This is neat. A handy demo of how you can be identified and tracked across the Internet without a single cookie ever being set in your browser.
I didn't set a cookie. https://kuber.studio/cookie/
@RockyC aha this gives me a clue why some stuff is thinking I'm on a VPN and demanding I turn it off:
> Your browser speaks English, your IP is in DE, and your clock is in a third place. That's not a traveller. That's a VPN.
[narrator: that's not a VPN]
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This is neat. A handy demo of how you can be identified and tracked across the Internet without a single cookie ever being set in your browser.
I didn't set a cookie. https://kuber.studio/cookie/
many years ago I read that since so few people have a privacy extension in their browser, that if yo have one it make tracking you much much easier
LOL
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This is neat. A handy demo of how you can be identified and tracked across the Internet without a single cookie ever being set in your browser.
I didn't set a cookie. https://kuber.studio/cookie/
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@RockyC/117059376370160807
Hope this can be mitigated one day
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This is neat. A handy demo of how you can be identified and tracked across the Internet without a single cookie ever being set in your browser.
I didn't set a cookie. https://kuber.studio/cookie/
@RockyC I opened it because I did not read the link: *kuber.studio/cookie/* kind of logical follow-up is the cookie?
