With just a browser, websites can know everything about your phone

Just go to whatismyphone.com page by phone, all information about your device will be displayed from the device name, year of manufacture, screen, camera, operating system in use, connection port, content the amount of internal memory, processor chip, carrier in use, current location . In fact, this is a simple website built for testing and shows you the ability to read information about device only from browser. Of course, the information is not read only from the browser, but also from many other websites.

Please visit and see the results.

1. whatismyphone.com

In order to know the information above, the web page relies on something that is on the browser called User Agent - a string of identifiers to let the server know the device name, browser, etc. It is much easier to find more information about the configuration.

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