A browser-based game on online profiling.
  • LvxferreEnglish
    14•1 year ago

    Great showcase on how much data your browser is unnecessarily bleeding to every website out there that wants it.

    Genuine, non-rhetorical questions: does anyone know why the hell your browser needs to tell the site

    • where your pointer is, instead of telling it which elements you clicked and calling a day?
    • if the window is active/inactive?
    • the relative position of the window in your screen, instead of just its approximate size?
    • Wander
      11•1 year ago
      1. Hover effects, you often want to respond to the user hoving their mouse somewhere, for instance showing a tooltip.
      2. Battery/network saving, a site can pause animations or reduce update requests when the window is inactive.
      3. I cant really think of a good use for this one these days, it was something browsers had in the 90s (not just readonly, websites could move your browser window where they wanted for a while). Maybe its kept for backwards compatibility.
    • @[email protected]
      4•1 year ago

      Some ideas:

      • for custom elements and general interaction, e.g., custom drag and drop or sliders
      • for instance YouTube does this whether to auto play videos or to keep them muted
      • i dont know, maybe for layouting things
  • Arghblarg
    10•1 year ago

    Fun, but disturbing. Our browsers should not be able to determine so much about our behaviour, IMHO.