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The amount of data we leak just in normal Internet usage is wild.

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A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

SaraMG 🇺🇸->🇵🇹

@saramg@fosstodon.org · 2 hours ago

@Crell None of this is surprising to me (apart from Chrome exposing battery percentage), or particularly "dangerous", but I've lived through the entirety of the web's growth, so I'm an outlier here.

I did find this bit of hilariously wrong information kinda funny though. (I'm in Lisbon, Portugal atm)

The website being discussed believing that I am in Riverside, California, United States. I am not.

Ben Ramsey

@ramsey@phpc.social · 2 hours ago

@saramg @Crell I’m also not surprised, but my view of information online is probably similar to yours. I think when we started getting online, there was an implicit consent to share this information because we were choosing to get online. Today, being online is a societal requirement, so no one is able to make this choice; it’s made for them.

Eric Mann

@ericmann@tekton.network · 2 hours ago

@ramsey @saramg @Crell I ran through things too, just to check. And yeah, it knows my IP. And what browser/OS I'm using. But that's it ... and also what I'd expect unless I'm intentionally VPNing or spoofing any of the above.