A browser-based game on online profiling.
  • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    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?
    • iamkindasomeone@feddit.de
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      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