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Could just be some random sites.

Could just be some random sites.

Posted Sep 4, 2009 4:07 UTC (Fri) by Arker (guest, #14205)
In reply to: Could just be some random sites. by southey
Parent article: What the Internet knows about you

Using FF 3.013/Windows at work, with Noscript on, I have a dozen tabs open and very long history, the site manages to pull up gmail.com. Nothing else. Odd.


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Could just be some random sites.

Posted Sep 4, 2009 14:56 UTC (Fri) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]

The site has a fixed list of popular sites and matches your browser's history against this list by seeing which links in the list gets marked as visited and which aren't. It can't just enumerate your history as it is.

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