privacy
What a website learns before you click anything
I followed one link to a test site and touched nothing. The site got 15 lines about me with the request and read 33 more things in under half a second.
What 'clear browsing data' leaves behind
I filled a Chrome profile with two test sites, then pressed Delete browsing data exactly as the dialog opened. One site was wiped. The other was not touched.
What incognito mode actually hides, and from whom
I opened one site in a normal Chrome window and an incognito one and compared what it saw. 26 of 29 things matched. Here is what incognito changes.
What an AI coding assistant actually reads from your code
I counted every file my AI sessions opened on one repo over a year. The median task read 5 files of 533. The surprise was the 482 it opened outside the repo.
What a CAPTCHA checks before it decides you're a robot
I loaded a real CAPTCHA widget and watched what it actually checked. It cleared me in under a second, without a click, and told me exactly what it read.
What 'Reject all' on a cookie banner actually does
I clicked reject all on a real news site and measured what changed. On a good banner it does stop the trackers. Here is the part it does not touch.
What a browser extension can actually see
Chrome's one permission sentence hides six separate capabilities. I read the manifests of all 20 extensions in my browser to see what Add really grants.