Check what your web browser knows about you

Personal information

We have yet to know the importance of our data and personal information for all those companies that use them and then sell them to third parties in exchange for a specific service that we all use daily. Carrying a phone with WhatsApp, Facebook and Google services means much more than many think, and every second we provide a lot of information.

A website has recently been launched that shows you on the screen all the information you collect this same about you. It is quite surprising, since it can even know when your laptop was being charged and what percentage of battery it had, even if you have your smartphone in your hand. A curious and relevant web experiment in which you will surely realize that the device you use daily knows more about you than you thought.

The use you give to a laptop or smartphone is very valuable information for all kinds of services, platforms and companies. For example, when you use a laptop in which you have I activate a plugin to remove adsMarketing companies will know that they cannot reach you through this advertising in the form of adwords, so they will use other methods such as SMS or emails to get it to you, even if you think you are going to get rid of it. And even if you think you are browsing anonymously, stop by, they will always know your identity.

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Another example is the battery status that is perfectly good to position you online and uses the battery API introduced in HTML5. It allows website owners to see the percentage of battery remaining on the device and thus apply lower resource consumption versions and web apps to users. The combination of the battery life as a percentage and the battery life itself in seconds provide 14m combinations, which is itself a unique identifier for each device. In this way, they already have you "caught" as you would say.

Webkay is the website with which you will know all the information they know about you thanks to a series of cards that explain the data that is collected well. Data such as software, hardware, location, connectivity, social media, "Click Jacking" and much more are one step away from clicking the following link:

Check what your web browser knows about you


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