An external image showing your user-agent and the total "hit count"

  • CoderKat@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yup. And to add, your browser will send things like:

    1. Your IP address. Technically this is sent by the OS doing networking and is unavoidable. At best, a VPN can hide this, because the VPN sits in the middle.

    2. Various basic request headers, which most notably contains user agent (identifies browser) and language headers, both which you can fake if you want to.

    3. Cookies for that domain (if you have any). Those can track you across multiple requests and thus build up a profile of you.

    • odbol@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s why you should use a native app, which won’t send any of that identifying info (except for IP but there’s nothing you can do on that)