Your Browser History Is Showing 174
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samzenpus
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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."
Microsoft actually did something right (Score:3, Funny)
With its "inprivate" browsing mode in IE8.
Since it doesn't track your history, I'm assuming that it your "inprivate" history can't be "sniffed".
black image (Score:5, Funny)
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.
wommens (Score:3, 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 ?
Re:...So.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:...So.... (Score:5, Funny)
I heard they collaborated and made their own.
Please mod: -1, Ewwwww.
I see London, (Score:5, Funny)
I see you shopping online at Victoria's Secret for underpants...
It uses javascript (Score:1, Funny)
Javascript runs locally on my own computer; so I'm sniffing myself?
Re:Not mine (Score:3, Funny)