only got HN for me, using Chrome 15 on OSX.
I too know the websites you visited
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Re: I too know the websites you visited
#12I got extremely inconsistent answers on multiple runs.
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Re: I too know the websites you visited
#13I got extremely inconsistent answers on multiple runs.
Indeed, as the second time you run it, you have visited all those sites, and some of those images are in the cache.
The first time, I had one 'visited', the second time about half were 'visited'. I'm surprised not all of them were, though...
Re: I too know the websites you visited
#14Not even close, while all the sites it said I visited, I had, it missed tons of other sites I'd visited.
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#16From the 5 sites I visited, it correctly flagged HN, WP and YT as visited, and gave a "whoops" for FB and Google (what does that mean?), which I both visited.
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#17Not even close, too. Instead of measuring load time, you can create "" elements verify their rendered color is the color you defined for visited links. It's a trick of old times...
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#18Really interesting concept. This one wasn't as accurate for me as the original Firefox-specifc proof of concept, though. It only picked up on YouTube and Wikipedia. What's with the "whoops" on Google?
I do use NoScript and Ghostery, though, and I could see how that might cause some false negatives.
Re: I too know the websites you visited
#19I 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.
there is already way better and reliable methods to accomplish same goal. e.g
http://ajaxian.com/archives/spyjax-using-avisited-to-test-yo...