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  • I was surprised that it only detected very basic details about me.. and most importantly, it got the display resolution completely wrong!
    by pkphilip
  • 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.
    by yev76
  • I tried it in different browsers. WebRTC must always be disabled. It’s better to try to work without JS in the browser.

    Also, the “forget” button worked for one reboot, and then it indicated again that I had visited this page the correct number of times.

    by user205738
  • 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.

    by eisleggje
  • > 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

    by znpy
  • > 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.

    by madiling
  • > "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

    by voidUpdate
  • > It asked for zero permissions.

    Not quite. It requested to play DRM protected content.

    by Clamchop

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