Re:Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you
by jedberg on Saturday November 29, 2025 @01:50PM
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> No, I have an iPhone Pro and am in the PST time zone, set to English. It has the exact same finger print as millions of other devices among the 40 million people in the PST time zone.
Your IP address, ASN, and location make this not true.
Re:Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you
by greggman65 on Saturday November 29, 2025 @09:24PM
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Those have nothing to do with "what the browser exposes". They are exposed regardless of what you use to connect.
Re:Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you
by jedberg on Saturday November 29, 2025 @09:28PM
(#46093011)
But the browser knows them too and the site can get you to reveal it, even behind a vpn.
Re:Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you
by dror on Saturday November 29, 2025 @02:10PM
(#46089948)
Beyond the obvious IP address difference, there are other way to fingerprint you, see
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
which will actually provide details about how you're a special snowflake, tracked by advertisers.
Re:Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you
by greggman65 on Saturday November 29, 2025 @09:23PM
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that site is just as bad at giving probably false numbers that are several orders of magnitude off
Re:Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you
by garbagewoman on Monday December 01, 2025 @04:30AM
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You’re quite welcome to not believe what everyone is telling you.
https://webgpureport.org/
But, they are bucketed
https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/#privacy-considerations
It's not zero pieces of info but it's also not close to as bad as it looks. Effectively, everyone who has, say an NVidia GPU, will likely have the same list of features and limits.
As a more general example: The number is just a flat out wrong
> Unique to 1 in 2,147,483,648+ devices.
No, I have an iPhone Pro and am in the PST time zone, set to English. It has the exact same finger print as millions of other devices among the 40 million people in the PST time zone. In general, The only things different between 2 iPhones of the same model are time-zone, laguange setting, and font size.
Please STOP EXAGGERATING!