What Does Your Browser Say About You? Find Out With BrowserSpy
Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in Features
Your browser is very telling. And I don’t mean just what type of browser you use, but also your screen resolution, what version of Adobe Reader you have installed, whether you have Java installed and if so what version, what CPU you are running and CSS information that can show what sites you usually frequent:
All thanks to BrowserSpy. With this little website you can see just how much of you PC’s information is leaking all over the internet like a water balloon with a slight tear in it. Many people don’t realize this, and that’s why BrowserSpy’s founder, Henrik Gemal, set out to start a site that offers this information to the world. He keeps it updated, and keeps adding things that he finds which you may not know is available just by surfing the web.
Concerned about your privacy on the web? Chrome has options that allow you to turn off JavaScript, go into what’s know as Incognito Mode and there are also variations of Chromium open source builds that are built with privacy in mind. When I went to the BrowserSpy site with one of such browsers, known as Comodo Dragon, a few things were left undetected as I went through the list of tests on the left hand site of the site – but not everything.
At the same time, using Chrome with no privacy settings turned on, BrowserSpy pinpointed my IP address to somewhere north of Wichita Kansas on a Google Map. Which is highly incorrect. Maybe they don’t know that much about me.
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14. Apr, 2010
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14. Apr, 2010
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