Your Browser History Is Showing

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 2, 2009 @02:03AM 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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Re:Microsoft actually did something right by haifastudent · 2009-07-02 03:49 · Score: 1, Interesting

On a stock Firefox 3.0.11 on a fresh install and no extensions, I visited about 20 popular sites (facebook.com, digg.com, xnxx.com and the like), then tried the history site. Just a big black png. Either the script is /.ed or I don't know the right sites to visit.

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Re:...So.... by Goaway · 2009-07-02 07:59 · Score: 2, Interesting

I learned elsewhere in this thread that Firefox 3.5 has finally implemented such a feature, although it might be off by default and hidden (I'm not sure about that, though).