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.
- Visit http://www.nothingprivate.ml and enter your name
- Click "see the magic"
- Visit the same website in your Private browsing / Incognito mode
- See the magic ⭐
Hope you are surprised! 😄 Yes, the website can remember your name even if you had visited it via private browsing or incognito mode. Yes, nothing is private in this world anymore! This is what the big companies are doing with your identity. You think that going into private mode will wipe out all the traces? Absolutely not! In reality, using private browsing or incognito mode will just help you to clear your browsing history. Your internet service provider, search engines, and your favorite websites can still track you. They can know you. They know what you like and dislike. They use your data to earn money. The video below explains everything:
Yes, nothing is free...
- http://privatebrowsingmyths.com/
- https://panopticlick.eff.org/
- https://amiunique.org/
- http://www.pcworld.com/article/192648/browser_fingerprints.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint
- https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/12/01/browser-fingerprints-the-invisible-cookies-you-cant-delete/
Nothing Private uses the browser fingerprinting feature of Client.js to obtain the fingerprint of your web browser. When you submit the form, it will save the fingerprint along with your name in a SQLite database using PHP as a backend. The next time you visit the website, your browser fingerprint is matched with the column in the database and it will return your name.
Visit db_server for the server files.
Feel free to modify the code and open any pull requests.
- Add more links
- Fix any typos
Special thanks to these rock stars:
- Sidhin S Thomas
- Meshpi
- Timothée Boucher
- Noah
- Khushal Sharma
- Pooja Bhaumik
- Daniel Davis
- eV
- Edipo Vinicius da Silva
- Bruno Massa
- Nimit Bhargava
- Riddler
- Muhammad Ubaid Raza
- Fisayo Afolayan
- Miles McCain
- Jobin Philip Abraham
- Thanks to the 100K⭐ users.
- Thanks to DuckDuckGo for this tweet.
- 33giga.com.br for the blog post.
- Thanks to everyone who tweeted about this.
- Thanks to TechCycle for this demo video.
- Thanks Joe for https://pnut.io/.
- Thanks to the @Mozilla community for discussing privacy issues. Some users even reported that nothing private is even working correctly with the latest version of Firefox focus. They created an issue for it.
- http://softwarelivre.org.
If you are having trouble using this project, please open a new issue and describe your problem.
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