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PhantomCollect is an advanced educational web data collection framework built for ethical cybersecurity research and privacy analysis. It runs a local web server that collects general technical data from visitors — such as IP, geolocation (with consent), device specs, browser info, network status, and battery level — and displays results in real time through the terminal interface. Designed for security researchers and developers, it demonstrates how modern tracking scripts and digital...

...Modern browsers offer a wide range of features to improve and simplify the user experience. One of these features are the so-called favicons: A favicon is a small (usually 16×16 or 32×32 pixels) logo used by web browsers to brand a website in a recognizable way. Favicons are usually shown by most browsers in the address bar and next to the page's name in a list of bookmarks.

OPFS is a browser fingerprinting library for creating persistent, unique and long-lasting digital fingerprints without depending on ever-changing variables such as the user agent string commonly used in other browser fingerprinting libraries. As such, the fingerprint does not change most of the time when a user upgrades their browser to the current version. OPFS uses some novel methods not well known before the publishing of this repo that allow the creation of a likely completely unique device fingerprint in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and other Chromium-based browsers. ...