Show HN: Everything a web page can learn about you, in plain English (sessioncontext.org)

My connection type being inferred as 4G may finally motivate me to do something about this Wifi.

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Putting the plain-English finding before its 383 raw fields makes the fingerprinting risk legible without hiding the underlying measurements.

A lot of this is just wrong; the only things they got right is that I can read English and I have an iPhone.

I’m surprised it got my timezone and location wrong. I’m less surprised they miscounted the number of speakers and my brand of gpu so confidently.

A big problem with being so wrong is I can’t use this to show anyone how tracking works online, because this is nothing like how tracking is actually done on line.

On the other hand, it’s a great advertisement for Apple.

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> plugins [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object]0 ms

This part is broken

Always wondered why websites need to know about my battery status