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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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