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History Sniffing In the Wild

Posted by Soulskill on from the smells-fishy dept.

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)."

2 of 96 comments (clear)

  1. Plug the leak in Firefox by hansamurai · · Score: 5, Informative

    Open about:config

    Set layout.css.visited_links_enabled to false

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    Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
  2. Re:YouPorn script by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 5, Informative

    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).