I too know the websites you visited

Doesn't appear to guess correctly in Chrome 15 on OS X (10.7.2). I'm not sure exactly what the 'whoops' means for google - but I've obviously visited HN and have visited a few of the others as well.

Screenshot: http://cl.ly/1i0921270W2b1u190b0W

Re: I too know the websites you visited

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Post by joe_the_user » Sat, Dec 03, 2011, 9:00 PM UTC

pnathan wrote: post #4

Nope. Only got 1 right. Best of luck, it's an interesting concept!

It's kind of comforting to see the fails here...

Re: I too know the websites you visited

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Post by shaggyfrog » Sat, Dec 03, 2011, 9:04 PM UTC

I think it got 100% for me, on Safari/Mac.

Note that it doesn't need to be 100% accurate to be effective. If it guesses better than 50% (i.e. coin flip), then it could be used to give guesses with at least some confidence. No different than analyzing any other noisy dataset. Because this all works client-side, it can also be done quite invisibly.

Re: I too know the websites you visited

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Post by nolliesnom » Sat, Dec 03, 2011, 9:04 PM UTC

With the exception of Facebook (which I visited this morning), the results were accurate (Amazon, reddit, linkedin, wikipedia, youtube). Spoooky!

Re: I too know the websites you visited

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Post by kevinalexbrown » Sat, Dec 03, 2011, 9:05 PM UTC

I got extremely inconsistent answers on multiple runs.

Re: I too know the websites you visited

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Post by Craiggybear » Sat, Dec 03, 2011, 9:05 PM UTC

More accurate but a couple of false positives.

Chromium on Linux