This website shows you exactly what sites know about you
A new website called SinceYouArrived reveals the extensive data that websites can collect about users. It highlights how information such as location, device type, and browsing habits are harvested as soon as a page is accessed. The site also provides insights into online privacy and suggests resources for protecting personal data.
- ▪SinceYouArrived shows what information websites can collect about users.
- ▪Data collected includes location, device type, and time spent on pages.
- ▪The site raises awareness about online privacy and offers tips for data protection.
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| Original publisher | Boing Boing |
| Canonical URL | https://boingboing.net/2026/05/18/this-website-shows-you-exactly-what-sites-know-about-you.html |
| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 2026 17:26:44 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-18T17:44:56.690Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-18T17:44:56.690Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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This website shows you exactly what sites know about you Séamus Bellamy 10:26 am Mon May 18, 2026 image: MVelishchuk/Shutterstock There are a lot of things you can do to make it harder to trace who you are online. But, like the criminal in a shitty prime-time cop show, we always leave behind a little something of ourselves. It's the price we pay for a free and open internet — where "free" means no subscription, and "open" means corporations rip your life open like a bag of chips to glean everything they can about you. You've heard about cookies and know your IP address can track your location. But even if you reject every cookie and hide behind a VPN, there's a flood of other information harvested from your device every visit.
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