This page is doing the rounds on the fauxdiverse - https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken - it is, frankly, alarmist. The vast majority of the data items sent by e.g. Firefox are of no concern and are needed for certain aspects of the web to function.
Also - the idea that there is some sort of sinister BigTech aspect to this is laughable. Some of these items have been present since at least HTTP/1.1 (1997) to my certain knowledge.
Ben Evans
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2026-05-09 11:17:17 UTC
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