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Your Browser History Is Showing

Posted by samzenpus on from the wasted-days-and-wasted-art dept.

tiffanydanica writes "For a lot of us our browser history is something we consider private, or at least not something we want to expose to every website we visit. Web2.0collage is showing just how easy it is (with code!) for sites to determine what sites you visit. When you visit the site it sniffs your browser history, and creates a collage of the (safe for work) sites that you visit. It is an interesting application of potentially scary technology (imagine a job application site using this to screen candidates). You can jump right into having your history sniffed if you so desire. While the collages are cool on their own merit, they also serve as an illustration of the privacy implications of browser history sniffing."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. black image by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tried it.

    I got a black screen (apparently no history to be shown).

    Either the engine is borked, or my privacy add-ins are working properly...

    Or possible the Oracle of Browser History has determined that my history is darker than the darkest dark, and refused to show images.

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  3. wommens by psergiu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quote from the final page of the script:

    You can get your web2.0collage as a mug,wommens ...

    I can have it as WHAT ? Okay, then can i have my wommens without the /. favicon all over them ?

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  4. Re:...So.... by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    And nobody will until someone constructs a detailed history of the porn sites that Steve Ballmer, Sergey Brin and Mitchell Baker have visited.

  5. Re:...So.... by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    I heard they collaborated and made their own.

    Please mod: -1, Ewwwww.

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  6. I see London, by smackenzie · · Score: 4, Funny

    I see France,
    I see you shopping online at Victoria's Secret for underpants...

  7. It uses javascript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Javascript runs locally on my own computer; so I'm sniffing myself?

  8. Re:Not mine by BigBlueOx · · Score: 2, Funny

    I fourth it. I never work. I browse.