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Retr0id 2 hours ago

> Your screen is 1512 by 982 pixels, rendered at 2x density — which means it is almost certainly a recent, high-end display. Your device volunteered all of this in the first milliseconds of the connection.

No it didn't. It was queried by the JS running on the page. It's a fun demo but it could really do without the slop prose.

mwheelz an hour ago | parent [-]

Pedantic but right. The JS queries them; the browser returns them without prompting the user. "Volunteered" is the editorial verb for that round-trip but it does paper over a layer.

Retr0id 32 minutes ago | parent [-]

It's relevant because connection-level fingerprinting is directly visible to intermediaries like cloudflare.