alt Hacker News* I'm not in that city.
* It's running a kind of Chrome on a kind of Linux, at a stretch.
* Nobody can infer when I work and when I sleep. That includes me.
* The recent, high-end display is the screen of a low-end tablet I bought in a supermarket five years ago.
* But yes, browser fingerprinting is annoying.
* Since you can detect light mode, would it kill you to honor it?
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* That's the wrong battery percentage and the wrong charging status.
> Since you can detect light mode, would it kill you to honor it?
It would probably still be low contrast garbage even if it did. :/
> I'm not in that city.
I'm using Apple's Private Relay VPN so it was hundreds of miles off. It's always interesting to see where websites or services think I'm located using their geolocation databases, but if I turn it off they can pinpoint me within a couple of miles. Thankfully almost nobody has ever blocked Apple's VPN, so I never have to turn it off.
> Since you can detect light mode, would it kill you to honor it?
Seriously, I'm in my mid-30s but some of these dark mode sites make me feel mid-80s. I can't see shit on this site.
> I'm not in that city.
Same, it claims Brussels, but I'm in Antwerp. It also got my screen resolution wrong.
> I'm not in that city.
Same, it said Riverside but I'm in San Diego (about 100 miles away from Riverside).
Of course, its just using a geolocation database for the IP address and thus reporting the location of some switching center Verizon runs and not my actual location.
If you're trying to prove a point about privacy its probably best not to lead off with information that can be off by hundreds of miles while presenting the fact that it "knows" this information as being darkly ominous.
Presenting this information while being wrong probably does the opposite of the site's intent and gives some people a false sense of security because what real websites and apps track about you using digital fingerprinting is a lot more detailed, personalized and (usually) correct than what this website presents.
> Nobody can infer when I work and when I sleep. That includes me.
Are you like /severed/ or something? Surely you can infer when you work and sleep from your experience living your life as you.
It was much better for me.
* Your socks don't match anything in the room.
* The man you thought you killed in Tuscaloosa woke up and walked home an hour later and is now a chiropractor in Shreveport.
* Your daughter is pregnant by the kid who trims the hedges.
* Your dog is dreaming about the squirrel in the wood pile.
How does it know?
The amount of fingerprinting this page reveals pales in comparison to what actually happens in the wild