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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."

2 of 174 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Not mine by Yaa+101 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It is unbelievable how many sites try to cram your surfing session with all sorts of cross scripting and other nuisance from 3rd parties.

    Noscript essentially gives back the decision of running scripts to the owner of the web client.

  2. Site is 404'ing "Slashdot" by rotide · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Not a joke, look down at the possible reasons for the error, one is being on slashdot.

    .

    ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved

    While trying to retrieve the URL: http://web2.0collage.com/app/;(a12v)

    The following error was encountered:

    * Unable to forward this request at this time.

    This request could not be forwarded to the origin server or to any parent caches. The most likely cause for this error is that:

    * Being on slashdot!
    * imagemagick bindings that leak memory
    * a hard limit of 4gb in a 64bit version of mzscheme for reason's I don't know

    Your cache administrator is webmaster.
    Generated Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:32:25 GMT by nullsleep.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (squid/2.7.STABLE3)