A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
Time zone has no info about where I actually am. Sure, I’m in a particular vertical slice of the earth. I have the JP keyboard downloaded, but you’re wrong, that doesn’t mean I speak Japanese. In fact, I speak French but your cookie reading didn’t pick that up.
It is genuinely interesting what info gets passed to websites but the doomy tone is rather silly and will unnecessarily worry people who don’t know much about computers/Internet, which is the majority of users.
Assuming it’s tz database timezones then they can be relatively specific. Since the slices are based around laws governing current time, there’s hundreds of slices rather than just a couple dozen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones Alongside things like keyboard downloaded it means you can be uniquely fingerprinted (or close to unique) pretty easily, which means they can then associate all sorts of other information with you
Time zone has no info about where I actually am. Sure, I’m in a particular vertical slice of the earth. I have the JP keyboard downloaded, but you’re wrong, that doesn’t mean I speak Japanese. In fact, I speak French but your cookie reading didn’t pick that up.
It is genuinely interesting what info gets passed to websites but the doomy tone is rather silly and will unnecessarily worry people who don’t know much about computers/Internet, which is the majority of users.
It got my timezone and location pretty spot on, though.
My time zone is quite specific and has only about 500,000 people in it
Assuming it’s tz database timezones then they can be relatively specific. Since the slices are based around laws governing current time, there’s hundreds of slices rather than just a couple dozen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones Alongside things like keyboard downloaded it means you can be uniquely fingerprinted (or close to unique) pretty easily, which means they can then associate all sorts of other information with you