This is an update of a previous paranoia page created in honor of Y2K.
What does this Web site know about you when you visit? The answer is: unless you explicitly type something in (a name, a phone number, your address, a social security number, a bank number, etc.), not much. I know:
Today's date: Thursday, April 25, 2024
Today's time: 09:14:53 PM
Date this page last updated: (none)
Date and time in Greenwich, England: 01:14:53, 04/26/24
How your Web browser identifies itself:
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
What your Web browser is set to accept:
*/*
The Internet address of your computer: 18.118.164.151
(I could look up the English-language translation of those numbers, but
it takes too long, so I won't)
URL you just came from:
(none)
And no, absolutely none of this came from information sent by your browser.