Clamchop 15 hours ago

> It asked for zero permissions.

Not quite. It requested to play DRM protected content.

  • hotsalad 12 hours ago

    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.

madiling 9 hours ago

> 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.

  • kuberwastaken 3 hours ago

    Perks of making this deterministic haha will fix, thank you

Panzerschrek 4 hours ago

> 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.

  • kuberwastaken 3 hours ago

    Yes, probably detected those, including teams haha

jogu 4 hours ago

On an iPhone like half of the information was wrong and conflicted prior information. And then stopped responding at the gathering ip, etc part.

voidUpdate 20 hours ago

> "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

zhxiaoliang 9 hours ago

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.

Trung0246 14 hours ago

Nice got different fingerprint across firefox and chrome on android

thisisauserid 20 hours ago

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

  • kuberwastaken 20 hours ago

    potato potato haha ; sadly advertisers aren't the only ones tracking us these days

zinekeller 9 hours ago

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.

  • kuberwastaken 3 hours ago

    Tested on MacOS, but will try to patch this

znpy 11 hours ago

> 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

cvince 11 hours ago

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