How much information can websites get about your browser/PC?

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Published on 2012-09-05T13:45:25Z Indexed on 2012/09/05 15:41 UTC
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I am trying to determine if the information shown on this website is the absolute maximum amount of information that a webserver can obtain from a web visitor.

Does anyone know of any other sites that will be able to get more information from the user passively like this? I'm not talking about port-sniffing or any kind of interaction from the user, just the info that a server can get from a 'dumb' visit.

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