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What? Are you still using Netscape and Windows 95? Wake up for the third millennium
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afaik when you go to geforce.com you can download a small utility that enables the webpage to autodetect your graphics card
Edit: without the need for ie -
With ActiveX (Javascript) you could get the name of computer after a prompt. Probably hardware info too.
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Even browser fingerprinting does a similar thing right? Except is spits out a number?
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@silverstar But browser fingerprinting isn't based on hardware information.
It uses information freely available like the resolution, installed fonts, the os (from the user agent) and other information the browser may provide such as battery info, etc. . -
@LinusCDE I'm not sure about the practical application but I've read a paper that theoretically calculates the fingerprint based on hardware specs available from the browser interface.
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@silverstar The principle is basically right. But since Nvidia can't get the name of the currently installed graphics card, those information seem to be limited.
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