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He mentions it (very) briefly with the Audi example. But yeah, this is a bit terrifying. I hadn't thought about this trick before now, and I don't see how you
by angelbob 17y ago
He mentions it (very) briefly with the Audi example. But yeah, this is a bit terrifying. I hadn't thought about this trick before now, and I don't see how you could easily turn it off...
- Fixnum 17y agoSee http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=800693 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=800693 and associated link. Summary: To mitigate, either (a) tell your browser not to save any history, or (b) in Firefox, go to about:config and turn off layout.css.visited_links_enabled. (Chrome doesn't seem to have about:config ...) This should probably be the default ...
- akamaka 17y agoAgreed about making that the default. Another workable approach are keeping a full history graph, and only showing visited links on the site where you originally clicked on them. Or, the browser could highlight visited links in a way that can't be detected with JavaScript code. This isn't hard to fix, so obviously we just haven't been complaining loud enough.
- whyenot 17y agoHere is an example using history sniffing to guess the gender of a website visitor. http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/ http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-h...
- warfangle 17y agoHeh; funnily enough, that scanner thinks I'm female...