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History Sniffing In the Wild
An anonymous reader writes "Kashmir Hill at Forbes documents a recent study by UCSD researchers showing that 'history sniffing' is being actively used by mainstream ad networks like Interclick as well as popular porn sites like YouPorn in order to track what other sites you visit. The vulnerability has been known for almost a decade, but this paper documents hundreds of commercial sites exploiting it today (PDF)."
...using Chrome in incognito mode. It determined I had visited...
...startpanic.com
So yeah, use incognito/private browsing mode.
Open about:config
Set layout.css.visited_links_enabled to false
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
Google obfuscates its JavaScript all the time, in order to keep page sizes low and load times fast (and perhaps to keep people from stealing their code).
More, if you also change the "unvisited links" color, then even a modified script designed to tell the difference won't know which color is your "visited" color and which is your "unvisited" color.
Sure you can. Just check a link to the page you’re on, since you know it’s visited.
Anyway changing those colours makes them clash with the rest of the stylesheet on a lot of websites.
Distributed Denial of APK: It takes 15 seconds to reply to him anonymously, but wastes tons of his time if we all do it.