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1. thisisauserid · 1785935374 · focus · HN ↗

   More like, Tell HN: advertisers don't need cookies to track you anymore!

   1. kuberwastaken · 1785935571 · focus · HN ↗

      potato potato haha ; sadly advertisers aren't the only ones tracking us these days
2. voidUpdate · 1785936107 · focus · HN ↗

   > "Your CPU is ARM-family — we know from a single subtraction"

   Not sure what went wrong for you but I'm running an i9

   > "Your battery is at 100%"

   I don't think my desktop computer has a battery

   > "Microphones attached = 1, Audio outputs attached = 1"

   Windows audio settings shows 3 inputs and 5 outputs currently

   1. kuberwastaken · 1785936472 · focus · HN ↗

      LMAO will patch
3. Clamchop · 1785953933 · focus · HN ↗

   > It asked for zero permissions.

   Not quite. It requested to play DRM protected content.

   1. hotsalad · 1785965438 · focus · HN ↗

      And asked to create a WebGL context and to view canvas data.

      Closed and reopened the browser and revisited the site a couple times, and it thought it was my first and gave me a different fingerprint each time.

      1. kuberwastaken · 1786017933 · focus · HN ↗

         removed it! The latter should not be happening anymore either hopefully
   2. kuberwastaken · 1786017910 · focus · HN ↗

      update: removed it, didn't need it and I use chrome so it didn't pop up haha
4. Trung0246 · 1785956465 · focus · HN ↗

   Nice got different fingerprint across firefox and chrome on android

   1. kuberwastaken · 1785958171 · focus · HN ↗

      Heck yea
5. znpy · 1785965965 · focus · HN ↗

   > Nice machine, by the way. an Apple M1.

   > 2 CPU cores and a 1920×1200 display. All the bells and whistles.

   i'm actually using a macbook neo and my display resolution is not 1920x1200

   > You've got LaTeX installed. You write academic papers, or you're a grad student.

   no i don't

6. cvince · 1785966980 · focus · HN ↗

   This is such a clever technical demo. Do you work for Posthog? LOL

   1. kuberwastaken · 1785997050 · focus · HN ↗

      thank you, I don't though hahaha
7. madiling · 1785974331 · focus · HN ↗

   > What you are using it on > > Your display scaling is set to 150%. > A fractional device pixel ratio (1.5) only comes from Windows display scaling. macOS uses whole-number ratios. So you're on Windows, and you've bumped the UI size up from the default.

   > Device pixel ratio = 1.5

   im on linux though. the page even says earlier that im on a linux box.

   1. kuberwastaken · 1785996887 · focus · HN ↗

      Perks of making this deterministic haha will fix, thank you
   2. dolmen · 1786014788 · focus · HN ↗

      Same issue here. Pixel ratio 1.25 on Linux, Firefox.
8. zhxiaoliang · 1785974756 · focus · HN ↗

   I looked into my ad profile section and saw that I was worth nothing... I'm not sure if I should be happy or not.
9. zinekeller · 1785975168 · focus · HN ↗

   Just tested this.

   > Your User-Agent says Windows, but your installed fonts are Linux's. One of those is lying, and it isn't the fonts.

   But also...

   > Voice list = Microsoft David - English (United States) [snip]

   > You use Microsoft Office.

   Considering that this is tested on Windows 11, I think your Linux detection is wonky.

   1. kuberwastaken · 1785996952 · focus · HN ↗

      Tested on MacOS, but will try to patch this
10. jogu · 1785991339 · focus · HN ↗

    On an iPhone like half of the information was wrong and conflicted prior information. And then stopped responding at the gathering ip, etc part.
11. Panzerschrek · 1785994591 · focus · HN ↗

    > You're inside a virtual machine.

    It's wrong. I have Hyper-V and VirtualBox installed on my machine, maybe it has some effect?

    > You use Microsoft Office

    No, I don't. It was installed previously, but my license expired.

    1. kuberwastaken · 1785996842 · focus · HN ↗

       Yes, probably detected those, including teams haha
12. wayknow · 1786001269 · focus · HN ↗

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13. eisleggje · 1786012956 · focus · HN ↗

    Fun site, but it got some things wrong:

    - 8 core cpu. I have 24.

    - devtools open. they are not.

    - primary language. this one is strange, because I'd think the browser declares it pretty loudly. I have a fairly small regional language set as my primary, but it detects English.

    - zero permissions. This is not true, Firefox actively opened a permissions button asking to access other apps and services on the machine. I decided to accept it out of curiosity - it didn't change the results in any way relative to blocking it.

    - first time here. it thinks it's my first time on the page every time I visit.

14. yev76 · 1786018718 · focus · HN ↗

    Good demo of the gap between "no cookies" and "no tracking". A chunk of the analytics industry sells "cookieless" where under the hood it's exactly this - a fingerprint doing the cookie's job. Easy way to tell the two apart: if a tool can recognize you as a returning visitor across days without ever asking, something is identifying you.
15. pkphilip · 1786026756 · focus · HN ↗

    I was surprised that it only detected very basic details about me.. and most importantly, it got the display resolution completely wrong!
16. nocebolauncher · 1786037174 · focus · HN ↗

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17. LargoLasskhyfv · 1786047337 · focus · HN ↗

    TZ wrong.

    Screen resolution wrong. 3200x2200? How does it come up with that?

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