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It's a wake-up call dressed like a website. The main page runs a live browser fingerprinting demo — it shows you every piece of data your browser hands over to every site you visit, silently, no permissions asked. Beyond that, we publish practical security guides and deep-dive explainers to help you actually do something about it. No ads, no affiliate links, no sponsors. Just a security professional who got tired of watching people get owned.

A cybersecurity professional who goes by b3. No company behind this. No investors. No board. Just someone who gives a damn about helping folks understand what's happening to their data — and what they can do about it. Questions? Hit us at info@noided.org.

Step-by-step guides for specific apps and platforms — Discord, TikTok, Instagram, your Android phone, your password manager, all of it. Each guide tells you exactly what settings to change and why. We don't pretend you're going to stop using these apps. We just help you use them with less damage.

Deep-dive explainers for folks who want to understand how things actually work under the hood. Credential stuffing, zero trust, cryptography, incident response — the stuff that explains why the threats exist in the first place. Technical, but written so a smart person who isn't a specialist can follow along.

Way more than you think. Your IP address and approximate location, your ISP, browser, OS, screen resolution, GPU model, CPU cores, device memory, timezone, languages, battery status, and unique fingerprint hashes from how your browser renders graphics and processes audio. All of that — from one page load. No popups. No permissions. No consent. That's the demo on our front page.

It's a tracking technique that combines dozens of data points your browser freely exposes — screen size, GPU, fonts, how your browser draws a hidden image, how it processes audio — into a unique identifier. Here's the thing: unlike cookies, you can't clear a fingerprint. It survives private browsing, session resets, and most VPNs. That's why the data harvesters love it.

Your browser gets asked to draw a specific image using the Canvas API. Tiny differences in how your GPU, drivers, and OS handle the rendering produce a unique hash. Two machines with different hardware will almost always produce different results. You never see the image. You never consent to it. But the hash identifies you.

Same idea, different signal. An audio tone is generated through the Web Audio API and processed through your browser's audio stack. Subtle differences in how your hardware and software handle it produce a measurable fingerprint. One more identifier you never knew you were giving away.

Your approximate location — often accurate to the city. Your ISP. Your network's autonomous system number. Whether you're on a VPN, proxy, mobile network, or datacenter. Combine that with the other 50+ data points and you've got a persistent profile. That's why "just use incognito" doesn't cut it.

Shows it back to you. That's it. The data gets displayed in real time as a demo of what's possible. Visit records stick around for 90 days on a self-hosted server, then they're automatically deleted. Nothing is sold. Nothing is shared. No ad networks, no analytics platforms, no "trusted partners." Just this one server.

The dropdown on the main page. It controls how deep the data readout goes. LOW shows the basics — IP, country, browser. MEDIUM adds hardware and network details. HIGH throws in fingerprint hashes, geolocation coordinates, and sensor data. EXTREME shows everything — the full raw dump of what was collected. Crank it up if you want to see how much a single page really knows.

"Noided" is slang for paranoid — comes from Death Grips. Here, it means being aware of how much of your digital identity is visible to every website you visit. You're reading this, so you're already a little noided. Good. A healthy level of paranoia about online tracking is increasingly the sane response.

Tor Browser is the gold standard — it standardizes most fingerprintable surfaces so everyone looks the same. Firefox with privacy.resistFingerprinting enabled is a solid alternative. Disable WebGL when you don't need it. Use a reputable VPN to mask your IP. Extensions like uBlock Origin and Canvas Blocker help reduce the surface. No single tool is bulletproof — layering is the strategy. Check our Protect section for specific guides.

Firefox: enable Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict), set privacy.resistFingerprinting to true in about:config, disable WebGL via webgl.disabled. Chrome: use Privacy Sandbox settings and install uBlock Origin at minimum. All browsers: kill third-party cookies, clear cookies regularly, and don't trust Do Not Track — most sites ignore it. We've got platform-specific hardening guides in the Protect section.

No. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. uBlock Origin blocks ads and tracking scripts. Privacy Badger learns to block invisible trackers. Canvas Blocker randomizes your canvas fingerprint. A VPN masks your IP. Tor routes traffic through multiple relays. Each one covers different ground. Layer them. That's the real answer.