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I heard about this last year, when I read this article: http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/ http://www.mikeonad

I heard about this last year, when I read this article: 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... Basically, it uses the socialhistory.js and some statistics to estimate whether you are male or female (which is useful information to advertisers). EDIT: Here's the HN story on that site: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=248558 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=248558

aarongough 17y ago
Great link! A bit of Googling reveals that this exploit looks like it was authored by Jeremiah Grossman on August 11 2006. http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-know-where-youve-been.html http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-know-where-yo... That seems like a very long time for an exploit so obviously useful to stay around...