This is lame as shit. The tone of the writing is going to get non-tech people feeling quite dismissive, or scared enough to seek out surface level info, which just rolls back into feeling dismissive. It’s actually really stupid because they’re clearly driving fear, but hardly touch the real thing to be scared of. Fingerprinting is barely mentioned, it’s only really addressed once, in the font identification section. The issue with all these data points is how they can be collected and correlated across the web - it basically means fuck-all if it’s only from one page.
edit: On top of that, each data point is presented as some sort of horrible catastrophe, when some are completely benign. Barely addressing why some points actually matter, or not at all. (Like click/touch data, it’s needed for site functionality, but it gets creepy when that data is used for things like psychological profiling)
Even more disappointing because the formatting/appearance is more than clean enough to share with basically anyone. Yet the tone and focus makes that out of the question. What a waste of time to make this.
Laughing my ass off reading through this. The sanctimonious and passive aggressive threatening tone is perfect for how much info it got wrong just because I use Firefox and an adblock. YOUR BROWSER DIDN’T TELL US ANYTHING ABOUT THIS, LIKELY BECAUSE ITS FIREFOX. BUT THAT MEANS WE KNOW YOU USE FIREFOX AND WE ARE CHOOSING TO BE SAFE WITH THAT INFO, YOURE WELCOME, PWNED!!!11!1111!1
Teaching people about fingerprinting and how important understanding it is for personal privacy is good, but acting like a 4chan script kiddy group and making bizarre empty threats like you’re mr robot ain’t it, dawg.
From other comments this is likely some AI slop to sell a product, but if they’re serious they come off like they just slept through sec+ and think they’re shadow brokers now lmao
Similar results with NoScript.
This volume requires JavaScript. That is part of the point — your browser is what is being read.
With JavaScript off, the page cannot tell you what your browser disclosed. The data is still there. The disclosure still happened. Only the telling of it stops.
The fact that they’re stopped from “the telling” says a lot about their abilities, but not much about “the disclosure”.
I imagine it was just stuff collected in most server logs: IP Address, user agent string… I’m not too concerned, really.
On a bog standard phone with dns blocking and nothing more, it was able to identify a lot of information. Some pieces of information I didn’t realize are sent to websites when I visit them. It’s a good demonstration of fingerprinting.
Using a slightly less popular browser with a single privacy addon almost completely circumvented their fingerprinting. Changing the user agent to mask the few pieces of almost useless info it did get, would have totally circumvented their fingerprinting.
I understand the average user would have more correct indicators. The point is, if they’re going to run a service like this, pretending to be hackers and making entirely toothless threats to scare people with info they likely don’t even know how to interpret themselves, shows how incompetent they are and that they don’t actually want to educate. Hence why most legit groups that do education like this choose to present themselves as professionals and adults instead.
You should try fingerprint.com .That is what Dropbox, Booking.com, TikTok etc use and you need Firefox with Jshelter set to the following settings to defeat it.
- Time precision: High
- Locally rendered images: Little lies
- Locally generated audio: Little lies
- WebAssembly speed-up: Enabled
- Everything else including Fingerprint Detector disabled
I’m not saying I’m a sec expert and impervious to tracking. I don’t need to try multiple sites until one gives me more correct hits, I understand the basics of fingerprinting and how it can be used maliciously. I do more than the average user to safeguard my information.
My point is, real sec professionals attempting to educate and make the general public more knowledgeable about privacy don’t have to rely on scare tactics and vague implications that they live in the matrix and are coming for you to accomplish that. It makes them look like ding-dongs who need to take the trenchcoats and sunglasses off and open the blinds. This thankfully seems to be a common sentiment in this thread.
Or a Firefox fork with resistFingerprinting disabled (Jshelter deals with that).
Even bog standard ios hides some stuff they claim to have.
WHAT RENDERS YOUR WORLD
Apple GPU
Your graphics processor identified itself as Apple GPU. This tells us the manufacturer, the generation, and roughly the price of your machine. Combined with your screen size and font list, this string alone can distinguish your device from most others on the internet. The technique is called WebGL fingerprinting. No permission is required.
Uh sure, that string tells you the generation and price.
Lol it says I have a “recent, high end device”… It’s a Samsung that’s old enough to be in the third grade.
Only thing that’s missing is a bunch of threats with a Bitcoin address at the bottom.
I’m guessing it has inferred that (wrongly) from your screen size and resolution.
That’s not a great datapoint, if that’s the case, there’s 2015 phones that are unnecessarily 4K (right when 4K TVs were becoming popular)
They’re really playing up the ominous tone.
“We know this because your IP address — xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx — was the first thing your device sent us. We know the rest of it. We chose not to display it. Most pages would not have made that choice. We did not ask for your location. Your address arrived before you did.”
Uh, yeah. That’s how IP addresses work.
dude be careful, right now your house is probably broadcasting a street address.
the mailman that drops your mail off? he knows
We sent a SYN-ACK packet and YOU acknowledged it, confirming you are not spoofing YOUR IP address. Now WE share the same sequence number. Most sites do not tell you this is happening.
I am pretty sure 90% of the people using the Internet don’t know what an IP address is.
Obvious, the address of where you pee.
Relevant user
namesentence.127.0.0.1
No, it’s where I pee…. It’s not a UP address
Compare this to Google’s homepage, which is clean, wholesome, friendly, and inviting.
(I don’t mind sites that try to scare the user straight, but this one definitely has the unmistakable tinge of AI-generated wording. Make a sense if you click through the links at the bottom to see who created it.)
It really looks ai-generated. It even contains mistakes like saying that my 5yo phone model with low resolution is a high end device. All the text is pretty “generic” and sloppy
Tbh, a five year old phone can absolutely be high end. Mine is four years old and I absolutely consider it high end.
A 5yo phone can absolutely be high end, but definitely not mine lol. It got a cheap soc, low resolution and 2gb of ram
Yeah, a bit overly ominous. But my mom doesn’t know that’s how IP addresses work. And if it scares a bit more privacy mindedness into her, good.
I think this is the idea behind it. Sure it looks sanctimonious if you’re already privacy-minded, but then the site isn’t for you.
Well yes, but most people don’t even know that part. I guess it’s not the worst thing to tell them?
Yes. You can either give them your real one, or not. That’s the point being made. Actually the point of the whole page is that just loading a website tells a huge amount about you, even if you are behind a vpn and extensions to minimize your fingerprint. You are a product for sale.
Well I am happy with my results… You ain’t gettin shit
Didn’t realize my phone sent it’s rotation data without promoting, everything else is kind of needed to send me info.
My IP
My screen size
My interactions with the page
Yeah, the rotation was a bit of a surprise to me. Doesn’t seem like Waterfox has a setting to disable that, so I just disabled my browser’s access to the accelerometer and gyros entirely.
Now instead of cutting it off send fake data so it looks like your phone is in a blender.
Weird, this user’s gyro says the phone is angled at the entire Doom source code
I find it weird that the web operator decided to make it so rotation data only is publicly shown if your phone is actually laying down. Because if you’re holding it in the standard position, it doesn’t even announce that it collects it.
I wasn’t aware about the thing with fonts.
sooooo reading a browsers user-agent is now a thing to worry about? oh look I changed my user-agent and now this dumb ass site is giving all the wrong info woulda look at that.
“We know where you are based on your IP” yeah bro, that’s how IP’s work. look i turned on mullvad, omg now it says i’m in Sweden!
“we know you’re using an AMD gpu” gasp ya don’t say. oh look I changed my user-agent again and now you think I’m on nvidia, crazy how that works huh?
This is a dumb bullshit site.
oh look it’s built by these morons: https://riseuplabs.app/ a company that vibe codes every “product” they have. so naturally building a stupid site that just pulls your user-agent would seem amazing to them.
This is bullshit marketing for their bullshit vibe coding. report this post, it’s an ad.
It didn’t even get the IP location thing right for me even without a VPN. It wasn’t even close. 🤣
Doesn’t seem to be anything new here than what’s we already know:
Just with a more ominous tone. Is it any wonder people are afraid of technology?
Your finger moved 273 times. You tapped 14 times.
I’m sorry what?
Since they went into the effort to make this sound so ominous, it’d be cool to see some actual inferences from the data points. For example it would be pretty easy to tell you are behind a VPN and your real location is probably xyz.
They knew i was on a vpn and the time zone, your phone just gives that shit up
Dont even get me started on “experimental” browser flags that come default on some browsers
The location is off by about fifty miles. It didn’t get my GPU or battery level. Everything else is stuff that doesn’t matter. Firefox browser, English, android device. I am not terribly impressed.
You’re right, and same for me, but what if you’d never considered any of this before and are new to the idea of privacy? I expect it would then give you pause for thought.
Sure, it’s a gimmick site. But it serves a useful purpose for those who don’t know about the topic. Which is probably the majority of users.
Despite my own experience: TIL the tilt angle of my phone is available to websites.
Try Deviceinfo.me
Your graphics processor identified itself as or similar.
Ah yes, Or similar, great GPU, love it.
We know your full name, blood type, and that your left elbow is itching a bit right now. Your browser told us. But we’re choosing to not show you. We also know what you did on July 14, 2018.
Seems to be making a lot out of “you send your user agent and screen resolution”.
There is a looot more than that lol. Usually enough to allow them to uniquely fingerprint every device on earth.
There were a couple of things on that page that were novel to me. “Only a couple” made it worthwhile though:
- There’s a free tier to a service that gives you geolocation data from an IP address
- This site counts the number of times you move to a different tab
I didnt mean this site specifically just in general.
See this site for something more technical. Takes a while to process everything give it a minute.
It’s a light version of what websites apps collect
Location is a few states over. Possibly due to being on a phone? Technically wrong carrier, mine routes through the one that it said. And the app I’m using I guess technically uses chrome to display, but I’m not using the chrome app.
