Tracking users with favicons, even in incognito mode

Re:Tracking users with favicons, even in incognito mode by stingraycharles on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:04AM (#45952548)

Totally unrelated, but what I found interesting: the README hasn’t been touched for years, yet it looks entirely AI generated. Including the commits.

People actually wrote READMEs / commit messages like that before? Have I been living under a rock?

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Re:Tracking users with favicons, even in incognito mode by dewey on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:25AM (#45952671)

Where do you think the AI training data comes from?

Emoji-heavy documentation/commit messages always seem very popular in JS projects, as this is seems to be the project of a 12 (Edit: It's 20, misread) year old I'm not too surprised that it's a bit unusual compared to others.

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Re:Tracking users with favicons, even in incognito mode by stingraycharles on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:44AM (#45952780)

Ah, I didn’t know this was made by a child, that makes sense then.

I knew this was part of the JS community, I just didn’t realize AI was literally 1:1 using the same style.

I guess didn’t realize that the NodeJS community was so dominant.

Or maybe is it because the NodeJS community always had a style of “many small libraries”, which causes them to be over represented?

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Re:Tracking users with favicons, even in incognito mode by fractalcounty on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:53AM (#45952827)

The README.md says the author was twenty years old when it was written. Am I missing something here?

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Re:Tracking users with favicons, even in incognito mode by dewey on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:53AM (#45952831)

I read it as twelve. My bad!

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