See data visible to websites
Your web browser provides lots of facts to webpages and to JavaScript as part of normal operations. These facts are helpful in that they let pages properly adapt content to match the capabilities of the computer and monitor they are on. But they can also be used to uniquely fingerprint and track users.
In this activity you will be looking at the types of information visible
Steps
- Visit the Cover Your Tracks website using your normal web browser using your normal settings. Click “Test Your Browser”.
- Make sure to scroll down on the results page to see all the different types of data the site was able to collect about your browser.
- Try visiting the page again using a privacy-preserving mode like Private Browsing, or Incognito.
- Try visiting with a different browser than your normal one.
- Brave
- Chrome - Advertising friendly
- Firefox - Auto blocks advertising
Reflection questions
- What detected information most supprised you.