For anyone interested in the source, I started hosting it on GitHub at https://github.com/Conlectus/WhoAmI.
Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
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Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
#92Original creator here. I'm super surprised to see this posted here. I can answer any questions people have.
For those of us who don't know Javascript, I'll just ask in broad terms: What is it, how's it work, what's it do?
Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
#93I could probably post a similar gizmo on HN with a results static page that says Your interests are: (some subset of) Programming Science Technology Games With literally no scripting, and everyone would find it "reasonably accurate" :D
fwiw, my results were very wrong
Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
#94This is quite clever. By the way now I've got a nice list of blogs/websites that I should probably read for various topics.
That's what I was thinking too. Here's a prettified list of the sites used: https://gist.github.com/amjd/acc5e108bfb2f29f050c
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#95It was eerily accurate on me. 1. science 2. technology 3. programming
Pretty inaccurate for me. It game minimum value to books and writing, and i love them both. I just dont open enough links about them (i read the books! Not their sites!)
Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
#96This can be done without any user interaction (and most likely has done to you without you knowing it). Check this link for 101: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1584850/is-it-possible-t...
Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
#97Hahaha. I was giving it the benefit of the doubt before viewing source, and so I was wondering what happens when I push gray instead of red. :P That is probably why I got some weird interests in my results.
Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
#98This can be done without any user interaction (and most likely has done to you without you knowing it). Check this link for 101: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1584850/is-it-possible-t...
Note that is from 5 years ago. Modern browsers have put up defenses. Others have linked to sources throughout the thread/
Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
For a less "covert" example than I am sure the OP was thinking, you could have "click the red button to continue" sort of like this page does. :)
Wouldn't that also require a hundred same sized differently colored buttons, just like this site?
Not necessarily. What if the un-visited box was set to display:none? That would leave you with just the visited boxes showing.
Now make it even less obvious: create a false box with the proper :visited color. That's your bottom layer, your fallthrough if the user hasn't visited any of them. Now position all of the :visited boxes as exactly the same size and position over that bottom layer. Now, when the user clicks the button to continue, they're guaranteed to click either your fallthrough ("user has none of my sites") or one of those you are monitoring for.
The end result of all this is a page that says "Click the box to continue."
Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
#100It's a shame I had only 4 red blocks. I should diversify :)
Fun experiment !