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READ-07 · 124.070 MHz · a reading

What it can read about you

READ-07 has been reading since you arrived, the way it reads everything it hopes to understand. Stay a minute and it will tell you what it found. Every word will be true, all of it comes from your own browser, and none of it leaves this page.

READ-07 · reading

0 of 12 read

  1. 01Your time

    Not yet read

  2. 02Your clocks

    Not yet read

  3. 03Your language

    Not yet read

  4. 04Your window

    Not yet read

  5. 05How you came

    Not yet read

  6. 06What they remember

    Not yet read

  7. 07Your hand

    Not yet readHow you move.

  8. 08Your stillness

    Not yet readWhat you do when you stop.

  9. 09Twice

    Not yet readWhat you read twice.

  10. 10Away

    Not yet readWhere you go when you are not here.

  11. 11What you kept

    Not yet readWhat you want to keep.

  12. 12Without a hand

    Not yet readHow you get around without one.

Your hand · the last 30 seconds

What any page can read

None of this is special to READ-07. Every page you open can read the same things, without asking, because your browser tells it. Here is each one, plainly.

Your time and time zone
So a page can show you dates and times in your own time. The zone is a region, like Europe/London, not a location, and it can be wrong on purpose.
Your languages
Your browser sends the languages you read, in order, so pages can answer in the right one.
Your window and screen
Their sizes, and how many pixels make up each point, so a page can lay itself out and send images sharp enough for your screen.
Where you came from
The address of the page that sent you, if it chose to say. Often it is just the site, not the page. Nothing is sent when you type an address yourself.
How you move
Pointer, touch, scroll and key events: every page that reacts to you reads them. Most only use them for that moment, and so does this one.
When you look away
Pages are told when they are hidden and shown again, so they can stop work you cannot see.
What you select
The text you highlight on the page itself, so pages can offer to copy or share it.
What was kept last time
Anything the site saved in your browser on an earlier visit. Here that is only which of the six have seen you, and when.

This page sends none of it. It is read here and forgotten when you close the tab. The only thing kept is that the reading was finished, in your browser, where the six keep everything else. Destroy your file and even that goes. See your file

Questions

Does this page send what it reads anywhere?

No. Everything READ-07 says is worked out in your browser and never leaves it. The site's page counts are anonymous and do not include any of it.

How does it know where I am?

It does not know where you are. It knows the time zone your device is set to, which every page can read, and says it the way the six would.

Can I stop a page reading these things?

Mostly not: a browser tells pages these things so they work properly. Private windows, blocking scripts and some browser privacy settings reduce what is shared.

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