From the number of squares, I thought it might end up doing something even more 'clever' i.e. generate a square for each of the most recent n URLs from feeds of m news sites, then analyse, for example, words in headlines of those articles to determine what I'm interested in. Lots of potential for data analysis once you have someone's browser history.
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#152If nothing else, I did get a good list of Programming and Engineering websites :D - http://pastebin.com/zrQ7EBnP
This is OT, trivial and a bit silly: How did you intend the json file? I tried with sublime but couldn't find anything to solve it. Didn't start an IDE for this.
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#153Some people are just too genius or protective of their privacy to enjoy this! :)
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. And the only reason you have to click the red squares is to let it know which ones are red. If you try to look up the color of a square using GetComputedStyle, it always comes back gray. That was the resolution of privacy Bug 147777† (":visited support allows queries into global history"). † https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777
What about if you make a screen capture from the page and use coordinates to read back the colours and correlate with the URLs? Seems a possibility based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9250505/how-to-upload-a-s... .
html2canvas constructs its "screenshots" using information from the DOM, so that wouldn't gain you anything but unnecessary complexity.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
fwiw, my results were very wrong
It uses a list of sites, the ones that are in your browser history are red squares. The results may be wrong for you if you cleared your browser history, or if you share your browser with someone else, or if you habitually visit sites you don't like.
Yes. Apparently I don't visit many programming websites, although that's mostly what I do, and I visit more gaming sites than anything. (I only play mario kart on my Wii occasionally.)
Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
#156This was exactly backwards for me... maybe I read it upside down? I jest, but the concept is cool, just needs to be refined I'm sure.
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#157Nothing was red for me
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about if you make a screen capture from the page and use coordinates to read back the colours and correlate with the URLs? Seems a possibility based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9250505/how-to-upload-a-s... .
html2canvas constructs its "screenshots" using information from the DOM, so that wouldn't gain you anything but unnecessary complexity.
Ah, OK, and other methods appear to produce blank images so presumably this route is purposefully locked down too. A java app or add-on would do it but they'd be a bit obvious for most users I'd think.
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#159Hm. Do you really need interaction at all? Can't you just :visited { margin/pos/whatever }, then probe the dom on that or related elems to extract the juice? Or have browser vendors thought of this?
This is a very old attack that has numerous security measures to prevent you from doing that now.
There's a new-ish hack recently out - "using requestAnimationFrame to time browser operations" http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/theyre-ba-ack-browse...
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#160Nothing was red for me
You cleared your browser history recently?