Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are

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Fingerprint chair · client-side only

Every measurement a website tin return from your browser, tally unrecorded and shown backmost to you. This is the aforesaid people of signals the search and anti-fraud scripts cod — surfaced alternatively of hidden.

1 Hardware & environment cross-engine · links you crossed different browsers

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2 Engine × hardware canvas · audio · mathematics · codecs — links wrong 1 motor family

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3 Browser build which browser & type — not who you are

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4 Session theme · quota · timing · IP — resets constantly

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Mostly local. Every fingerprinting probe runs successful your browser and stays present — nary analytics, nary beacon. The one exception is IP intelligence: connected load, GlassBox queries nationalist geolocation APIs (ipwho.is, ipapi.is) to look up your address, web and VPN status. Turn Geo disconnected successful the toolbar to enactment afloat local. View root to corroborate the rest.

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