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Huh, I never knew my browser just volunteers my exact hardware specs to any website without so much as even notifying me about it.
by torginus 8mo ago
Huh, I never knew my browser just volunteers my exact hardware specs to any website without so much as even notifying me about it.
- Jaxan 8mo agoIt doesn’t really. The website thinks I’m on a iPhone 19 pro, although I’m actually on a iPhone SE 1st gen. So it’s off by roughly a decade.
- torginus 8mo agoMaybe that's one of Safari's numerous 'quirks' our frontend devs keep bitching about. Which in this case Im thankful that Apple isn't too keen on following standards like these.
- weikju 8mo ago> on a iPhone 19 pro I wish the website could tell us how life is like in 2027!
- tstrimple 7mo agoMine is radically off as well. Says I've got a GeForce 980 or equivalent with 4GB instead of a 5090. I'm guessing the detection only really works on Chromium based browsers.
- ebbi 8mo agoI thought that's how airlines do the whole trickery around having different pricing if you access the site from Windows or Mac...
- DanielHB 8mo agoThis stuff is used a lot in browser fingerprinting for tracking purposes. More privacy-focused browsers usually feed randomized info.
- hotsalad 8mo agoThe latest Librewolf prompted me to allow the site permission to make a WebGL context. That's what it used for hardware detection.
- nozzlegear 7mo agoIt couldn't guess any of my hardware specs when I opened the page in Safari on my Mac.