Show HN: What every browser knows about you

Re:Show HN: What every browser knows about you by msane on Friday April 01, 2016 @05:03PM (#11408590)

You should leave it in, if the whole point is to demonstrate the capabilities.

It's incredible that a webpage can do that.

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Re:Show HN: What every browser knows about you by dikaiosune on Friday April 01, 2016 @05:20PM (#11408692)

I think a button would be more appropriate. Not everyone reads HN on a network they control and port scanning one's neighbors can lead to some unpleasant conversations.

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Re:Show HN: What every browser knows about you by Too on Saturday April 02, 2016 @01:26AM (#11410363)

Maybe it's good that more conversations around this are started so that eventually this critique is upstreamed loud enough to the browser vendors.

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Re:Show HN: What every browser knows about you by toomuchtodo on Friday April 01, 2016 @05:58PM (#11408903)

> It's incredible that a webpage can do that.

How so? Any site you navigate to knows your IP, and can take action based on that.

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Re:Show HN: What every browser knows about you by kevincox on Friday April 01, 2016 @06:11PM (#11408951)

This isn't based on external IP. This is using JavaScript to make requests inside your LAN.

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Re:Show HN: What every browser knows about you by hobs on Friday April 01, 2016 @06:33PM (#11409065)

Yeah I feel like samy.pl demonstrated this years ago, freaked me out and I have been running noscript ever since :D

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Re:Show HN: What every browser knows about you by mavhc on Saturday April 02, 2016 @03:34AM (#11410637)

Weirdly it's wrong for me, there's LAN IPs on the list that don't exist, and it's missing ones that do. Firefox on Ubuntu, with uBlock Origin, over WiFi.

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Re:Show HN: What every browser knows about you by IE6 on Friday April 01, 2016 @05:13PM (#11408658)

Agreed - good on OP to raise awareness.

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