Nothing Private

Uncovering the myths of Incognito & Private browsing

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Uncovering the myths of Incognito & Private browsing

1 follower

This project is a proof of concept that any website can identify and track you, even if you are using private browsing or incognito mode in your web browser. Many people think that they can hide their identity if they are using private browsing or incognito mode. This project will prove that they are wrong.

Launch tags:Web App•Privacy

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Honestly, it's written right in the home page of Incognito mode that incognito is not meant to make you private the way you describe, what's the point of all of this?

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8yr ago

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Maker

@fezvr4sta Yes. I know this. This is just a proof of concept to let the users know that they can be tracked by the websites. Most people believe that they can isolate their personal data with private data by using incognito mode. They believe that while visiting a site in incognito mode the data they create online is not linked to their real accounts since the incognito mode clears every data about the existing user.

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8yr ago

Exodify

Nice POC! Any plan to experiment with machine/hardware fingerprint so it will still identify you even if you switch browser? A bit of canvas fingerprinting or audio fingerprinting, or mouse wheel/speed, CPU?

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8yr ago

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Maker

@valereonmobile Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I am working on making fingerprints more unique. Will look into those.

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8yr ago

Hi, I'm on Firefox 67, the checkbox block fingerprinters is checked in the preferences and still I'm recognised. How come ? Thanks

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7yr ago

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Maker

What do you think of Nothing Private?

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8yr ago

Guard.dm

@gautamkrishnar I believe projects like this one make people realise how they are spied on and be aware the "private" (not so much) browsing. Just would be nice to have a solution to keep data private...

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8yr ago

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Maker

@kura955 Thanks. 😄

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8yr ago

@gautamkrishnar I just used it with Firefox & it did not work

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8yr ago

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Maker

@palauisaac Sometimes it wont work. Its only a small percentage: https://github.com/gautamkrishna...

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8yr ago

Does not load, not sure if that's a good sign on my side?

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8yr ago

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Maker

@andre_e_g Can you please retry. Since we are using free server to host the API backend it will have issues sometimes. Just added the code to notify user when there's an API failure.

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8yr ago