[–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Almost all of the data it showed me was inaccurate, whew. Firefox doing a good job there.

That helps less than you'd think, fingerprinting doesn't need to be accurate,

incorrect, it needs to be very accurate if it's actually going to track you. If you block tracking scripts and all a website can do is fingerprint you then they're getting nothing besides "you read this article" or "you visited this page" with no way to sell that data. noticeably the ad sales section was almost completely empty for me. If a single bit of my information changes the previous fingerprint was completely useless.

also this site is just making shit up 😂

output when I typed a single letter at a type with half a second between each, and quit the sentence as soon as it said I could:

Your typing rhythm is steady and practised, you spend a lot of time at a keyboard.how? You type at about 45 words a minute.how?

output when I typed full speed

Your typing rhythm is uneven, hunt-and-peck, or you were distracted.how? You type at about 105 words a minute.how?


Timezone America/Denver 0.8% of people - 1 in 297,619

is just laughably incorrect though. maybe it's based on how many people have actually visited the site like that? but most people have multiple devices, if not a work computer and cell phone at minimum. that would mean only 150k people have America/Denver as their time zone, when the reality is probably 10-15 million, so this number is actually more like 1 in 20-30million


firefox nicely randomizes output between runs, so it was 16core the first time, 8 core the second time.


finally this "1 in x" is just laughably wrong. it always says 1 in 133.2 million, even if I give it more data like the size of my screen (which is 1 in tens of millions).

not saying that fingerprinting doesn't work, it obviously does, but this site is shit and doesn't prove that point at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    They literally aren’t haha. You didn’t even bother to look at the statistics you literally just made shit up. NYC only has like 20% car usage.

    You talk a lot of shit for someone that doesn’t seem to know anything about transportation.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    I can’t tell if you’re joking or not. You literally listed cities that have massive transportation systems and an absolute fuckton of micromobility. You’re literally spewing shit out your ass and acting like it’s fact.

    It isn’t the norm. It’s the exception to the norm. Learn the difference between these two things.

    That’s not what that means. Holy shit you must be trolling or Russian. Get the fuck outta here.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    They are equivalent. Your quote:

    This is exactly right and I love Linus so much for cutting through the emotion every time. All he cares about every single time is if the commit is good or bad. Thats how it should be.

    So the only thing that matters is that the commit is good. Not whether the commit turns on DRM for every Linux machine on the planet, not if the commit starts requiring age verification for every user, not if the commit fucking bombs every city on earth.

    Your reasoning is literally ignoring harm.

    I said nothing about profits or ignoring harm.

    No, you implied it with a dog whistle. And now you’re pretending like you didn’t.

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