On: Show HN: What every browser knows about you

[stephenr]

> Not much of interest showed up for me. Monitor resolution, browser ID, geo location, OS and public IP.

Are you saying it showed your geo location without having prompted for it, and that you're OK with that?

[encom → stephenr]

I meant whatever DB they use to get location from an IP address.

[stephenr → encom]

> I meant whatever DB they use to get location from an IP address.

They aren't using GeoIP lookups. Google runs a service that uses Javascript to try to provide a more accurate position than GeoIP can.