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'ClickClickClick' Site Reveals How Much Browsers Know About Your Online Behavior (news.com.au)
mi writes: The site called ClickClickClick annotates your every move on its one and only page. Turn on the sound to listen to verbal annotations in addition to reading them. The same is possible for, and therefore done by, the regular sites as they attempt to study visitors looking for various trends -- better to gauge our opinions and sell us things. While not a surprise to regular Slashdotters, it is certainly a good illustration... Dutch media company VPRO and Amsterdam based interactive design company Studio Moniker have created the site to remind online users about the "serious themes of big data and privacy." Studio Monkier designer Roel Wouters said, "It seemed fun to thematize this in a simple and lighthearted way."
It didn't reveal much? Guessed the number of CPU cores wrong (says four, I've got two but perhaps it counts hyperthreading?). Using Firefox with an adblocker, on a Mac.
It could've done OS and browser fingerprinting, show possible location based on IP, shown a number of social networks that I usually log into, etc.
Somewhat disappointed actually :) Or perhaps relieved :)
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Let Google do the same :
* Your credit card number is 5500 4567 3436 7804
* You spent $3754.17 on Amazon in 2016
* Your coordinates are 39.2904 N, 76.6122 W
* Your dad has undiagnosed cancer since may 2016.
* Your wife cheated on you yesterday. Twice! At 39.166537, -76.624614 and 39.204198, -76.655321, with Google users #5465487874 and #497987544
Have a nice day, and remember : "don't be evil"!
who really runs javascript from unknown sites?
Roughly 99% of internet users. About 0.2% deliberately disable javascript. That data is from 2013. A quick search didn't bring up anything more recent, but I doubt there's been a humongous sway in javascript use among the general populace. Keep in mind that Slashdot users such as us are, almost by definition, not representative of the average internet user; just because it's common amongst your circle to disable javascript by default, doesn't mean that's common for everyone else.
I was disappointed. I expected an Orwellian experience where it told me what my sexual orientation was and who I vote for all I got was a load of crap I'd expect any piece of software to be capable of monitoring. I mean honestly slashdot clickbait much?
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
ClickClickClickBait
All I get is a blank white page with a little spinning cursor.
Yet another reason why i love uMatrix