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: Tuesday, October 08, 2024
Today's time: 04:45:45 PM
Date this page last updated: (none)
Date and time in Greenwich, England: 20:45:45, 10/08/24
How your Web browser identifies itself:
CCBot/2.0 (https://commoncrawl.org/faq/)
What your Web browser is set to accept:
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
The Internet address of your computer: 3.236.112.101
(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.