When you surf around the internet your browser leaves behind a trail of digital footprints. Websites can use these footprints to check your system. BrowserSpy.dk is a service where you can check just what information it's possible to gather from your system, just by visiting a website.
BrowserSpy.dk reveals more than enough information
BrowserSpy.dk reveals more than enough information
http://browserspy.dk/
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bugman
i find "no ebay" especially funny, as i was there just a minute before doing the test, and for an hour or two earlier this morning . . .http://facebook.com/ No or unable to detect!
http://linkedin.com/ No or unable to detect!
http://twitter.com/ No or unable to detect!
http://microsoft.com/ No or unable to detect!
http://google.com/ Yes, you have been visiting the site lately!
http://yahoo.com/ No or unable to detect!
http://flickr.com/ No or unable to detect!
http://icq.com/ No or unable to detect!
http://slashdot.org/ No or unable to detect!
http://theregister.co.uk/ No or unable to detect!
http://ebay.com/ No or unable to detect!
http://excite.com/ No or unable to detect!
http://news.com.com/ No or unable to detect!
http://cnn.com/ No or unable to detect!
http://dell.com/ No or unable to detect!
http://mozilla.com/ No or unable to detect!
http://mozilla.org/ No or unable to detect!
http://tdconline.dk/ No or unable to detect!
http://ekstrabladet.dk/ No or unable to detect!
http://bt.dk/ No or unable to detect!
http://gemal.dk/ No or unable to detect!
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Pizzasgood
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My NoScript extension just laughs. They could still find out some things by analyzing my HTTP headers though.
http://browserspy.dk/headers.php
HTTP headers can be accessed by the server itself without running client-side scripts, so NoScript does nothing to block them. They are a function of the browser though, so you could theoretically configure it to lie (for example, that's how people trick websites into thinking they use IE).
Not a huge reason to worry about it though. It's a good thing for people to know which browsers and OSes are used to view their sites, and fairly harmless to the users.
The IP address of course is not a function of the browser and is nearly essential for them to know (otherwise how do they send the page back to your browser?). Only good way around that is proxies.
http://browserspy.dk/headers.php
HTTP headers can be accessed by the server itself without running client-side scripts, so NoScript does nothing to block them. They are a function of the browser though, so you could theoretically configure it to lie (for example, that's how people trick websites into thinking they use IE).
Not a huge reason to worry about it though. It's a good thing for people to know which browsers and OSes are used to view their sites, and fairly harmless to the users.
The IP address of course is not a function of the browser and is nearly essential for them to know (otherwise how do they send the page back to your browser?). Only good way around that is proxies.
Last edited by Pizzasgood on Sat 13 Feb 2010, 17:21, edited 1 time in total.
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