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Discussion (9 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

ToriTech•about 1 hour ago
Holy crap, that is a surprising amount of info. I knew about browser and hardware fingerprinting already, but measuring my typing speed, the time I spend on the page, and how much I scroll was definitely not on the list.

Thank you for this, it's inspired me to look into ways I can protect our privacy.

79a6ed87•about 10 hours ago
> plugins [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object]0 ms

This part is broken

mooktakim•about 10 hours ago
Always wondered why websites need to know about my battery status
pveierland•about 1 hour ago
Websites could use it to implement less power consuming behavior when you are low on power, e.g. defaulting to run an expensive computation when requested instead of automatically.

Ignoring browser fingerprinting, it seems like most of these signals could be used to implement some feature benefiting the user.

solarkraft•about 1 hour ago
Oh were we naive ...
Zecc•40 minutes ago
If they are too aggressive with their bitcoin mining, you might not come back.
marten31•about 22 hours ago
Putting the plain-English finding before its 383 raw fields makes the fingerprinting risk legible without hiding the underlying measurements.
kylecazar•1 day ago
My connection type being inferred as 4G may finally motivate me to do something about this Wifi.
geocar•about 15 hours ago
A lot of this is just wrong; the only things they got right is that I can read English and I have an iPhone.

I’m surprised it got my timezone and location wrong. I’m less surprised they miscounted the number of speakers and my brand of gpu so confidently.

A big problem with being so wrong is I can’t use this to show anyone how tracking works online, because this is nothing like how tracking is actually done on line.

On the other hand, it’s a great advertisement for Apple.