What the Internet knows about you
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are people seriously worried about this sort of thing? why?
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It's called Paranoia. Welcome to the Post 9-11 world.
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@ecuadorian said:
It's called Paranoia. Welcome to the Post 9-11 world.
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Worried a bout big brother looking over your shoulder?
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so they won then?
exactly the intended goal. sorry if i refuse to buy in to it. as far as i'm concerned big brother can come sit on my knee as i surf, compose emails, whatever. as long as their not offended by the occational porn site, we should get along fine.
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I'm more worried about some site owners knowing you've been frequenting their competitor's site...
And also about criminals knowing which banks you have accounts in just by checking your historial...
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you worry, i'll surf, and we'll end up in the same place in the end. i'll just have more freedom than you.
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Hm. It saw NO visited websites at all on my machine. True that my FF settings are made to delete all when exiting it.
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It didn't spot any of my browser history, even though it hasn't been deleted. You might want to check your stealth settings at somewhere like http://www.grc.com/default.htm which includes a load of other useful info. Check via the Shields Up link.
I suspect that the script on that website is merely displaying your history in an alternative form to the usual browser sidebar. You occasionally come across other sites that show the entire contents of your hard drive, but it's just a display trick to get you to buy their phoney security software. They can't actually read your drive...well, not if you've taken sensible precautions anyway. -
xrok1, is this corner bar or what, if this disturbs your daily life, you might not want to open this particular forum - use the freedom you have. I dont see this as paranoija, just curiosity to see how things do work and sometimes one can create unexpected results from it. Feel free to leave tracks of you internet life, but I think it's good to know, if these tracks can be gathered.
But back to the topic... For my understanding it's based to on how browser request the style of visited websites. Nothing is gathered from the computer, the site sends a hidden list of links and then browser ask style for those links. Based on asked style the server knows that you have visited on a website. If history is cleaned or java script is disabled then this does not work. -
It doesn't matter to me, I know all about them too.
hahaha
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Interesting, running Firefox on an old G4 mac it detected Flickr, and facebook.
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i didn't know these discussions were limited to one sided discussions. i'm just saying that paranoia breeds paranoia and reason gets lost along the way. paranoia is a much more dangerous form of terrorism IMO.
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@xrok1 said:
i didn't know these discussions were limited to one sided discussions. i'm just saying that paranoia breeds paranoia and reason gets lost along the way. paranoia is a much more dangerous form of terrorism IMO.
I would rather say that paranoia breeds from ignorance and fear. Eighter way it's dangerous. Personally I prefer not to leak my privat information, that includes my web surfing habits - do I suffer paranoia and am I less free? I don't think so.
@xrok1 said:
thanks for the spam, but who cares!
And that was not ment to limit discussion?
You made your point perfectly clear.
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form looking at the html I think that it sends your browser hidden links and sees which ones you computer has been to. it then can tell where you have been to.
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@dantheman said:
form looking at the html I think that it sends your browser hidden links and sees which ones you computer has been to. it then can tell where you have been to.
Exactly. This method has limitations, it only can find out, if you have visited on particular web sites. Althought that would be enough for targeted marketing, scammers and so.
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I use Firefox and I run CCleaner each morning, which deletes your internet history and other crap.
http://www.ccleaner.com/
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