In my case, the ones it got wrong were the images that returned a 304 (not changed) header since they returned significantly faster than fetching the full image.
I too know the websites you visited
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Re: I too know the websites you visited
#52It said "not visited" for EVERYTHING, except google which says "whoops". I have visited nearly all of them in the last 2 months. But don't despair, I have one of the most hostile browser settings. I have RequestPolicy, NoScript,and Flashblock.
Same for me. I then opened facebook in a tab, reran it and it said I had visited every site except facebook.
Re: I too know the websites you visited
#53Big miss for Twitter, but cool idea anyway.
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#54got it mostly right initially, I then visited facebook (which it said I hadn't been to), it then told me I visited ALL the websites (except facebook).
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#55got it mostly right initially, I then visited facebook (which it said I hadn't been to), it then told me I visited ALL the websites (except facebook).
that makes sense though (mostly), after you test once all the images are cached on the second run.
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#56Completely wrong. Said I visited some I haven't heard of, whooops on Google, and not visited on most of those that I've been to recently.
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#57Throwaway account. My company created an analytics product around the ability to track which sites your visitors have visited. It used a different and (at the time) more reliable technique. About a year after the product launch we were contacted by a powerful washington based lobby group and they wanted to chat. They felt it violated a site visitor's "reasonable expectation of privacy". I agreed. So we pulled the fea…
Open-source it?
Re: I too know the websites you visited
#58Old but related: Using your browser URL history to estimate gender
http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-h...
Seems like i'm 50% male 50% female :D
Re: I too know the websites you visited
#59Again, this seems to be inaccurate for a large number of people. Can we take these two attempts as evidence that is hard for malicious websites to discern our browser history?
Re: I too know the websites you visited
#60Old but related: Using your browser URL history to estimate gender http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-h... Seems like i'm 50% male 50% female :D
That's because the CSS trick it uses doesn't work any more.
It would be interesting if someone updated it to use this new trick or even just as a Chrome extension.