What is Digg?298 Comments
- Tabascork, on 07/20/2009, -13/+249***** Web 2.0, I want my anonymity back.
- muchlovetoall, on 07/20/2009, -2/+204So, the choice is
1. Allow everyone in the world to sniff my browsing history.
2. give up the ability to see my own browsing history.
Somehow, this doesn't seem right... - doobiebrother, on 07/21/2009, -4/+189digg
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digg - crazyirishhobo, on 07/20/2009, -21/+167I see london
I see france
I see you shopping online at Victoria's Secret for underpants :p - progreddit, on 07/20/2009, -1/+115or behind door number 3, have someone actually fix the problem..... I know its a bit optimistic though.
- empath, on 07/21/2009, -1/+114It has to do with the a:visited tag in CSS.
http://www.juniper.net/security/auto/vulnerabiliti ...
Basically, the page has a bunch of links to sites, with an a:visited style defined that references a different external file for each site. When you load the page, it checks which files you downloaded and matches them up with their lists of sites. - densetsu23, on 07/21/2009, -0/+109Disable CSS.
With a CSS file, you can make visited links appear differently than unvisited links (e.g. make a visited link purple, an unvisited link blue.)
This site simply renders links to pre-determined sites thousands of links using CSS. Then a Javascript function goes through all the links, and checks which ones the CSS file rendered as visited (e.g. what links are purple text, not blue text).
Voila. A list of your visited sites. It can only tell that you've been to a site if that site is on the list they loaded up. So if their list only has digg and Google on it, then they won't be able to tell you've been to YouPorn. If the list they use *does* have YouPorn on it, though, you've been caught red-handed. - Fishn2, on 07/21/2009, -2/+89I dugg you up because you said "*****" follow by a noun.
- joshuau490, on 07/21/2009, -1/+79I've never seen a porn collage before
- DiggerT, on 07/21/2009, -1/+60even NoScript can't stop your browser history being sniffed http://making-the-web.com/misc/sites-you-visit/noj ...
- designbydave, on 07/21/2009, -2/+59digg
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digg - inactive, on 07/21/2009, -9/+64It can only know if you've visited one of the sites it specifically searches for. This technology uses a pre-determined list of sites. It doesn't know EVERYWHERE you've been.
Buried as innaccurate. - tmyprod, on 07/21/2009, -0/+48I got a solid black image.
Am I even online? - Neo139, on 07/21/2009, -0/+47The service is not available. Please try again later.
you did it again digg! - inactive, on 07/21/2009, -1/+45Thank you sir for being the only person to bother describing how it's actually doing this.
- inactive, on 07/21/2009, -9/+53***** THE RIAA!!!!
- JeSTeRSeVeN, on 07/21/2009, -1/+44I use my history for everything by way of Firefox's awesome bar. If I remember a story i saw on digg 3 days ago, I just start typing words i think might have been in the title, or the URL. It pretty much changed the way I browse.
- iloveburritos, on 07/21/2009, -16/+56Why does ***** _______ get dugg up so much? ***** Digg. ***** Twitter. ***** Web 2.0
It's like ***** ______ seems to be the newest meme around here. - N01SE, on 07/21/2009, -0/+39can you now fix it so it doesn't use 95% of your cpu
http://web2.0collage.com/hist.js - keviniskool, on 07/21/2009, -0/+39Or the Helen Keller Simulator
- kadio, on 07/21/2009, -1/+40***** you for asking the world's dumbest question. He's expressing his dislike of something in the most pointed possible way. The very strong yet simple quality of his statement makes it so easy to agree with and hence dig.
It's not a meme...it's just a simple and short sentence that has existed since long before the Internet. - ljpants, on 07/20/2009, -3/+39I really don't like the privacy implications of this, is there any way to avoid exposing my browser history without having to resort to something like noscript in firefox or clearing my browser history?
- kayosthery, on 07/21/2009, -3/+38***** L. Ron Hubbard and
***** all his clones.
***** all these gun toting hip gangster wannabees.
learn to swim
***** retro anything.
***** your tattoos.
***** all you junkies and
***** your short memory.
learn to swim.
***** smiley glad-hands with hidden agendas.
***** these dysfunctional, insecure actresses.
learn to swim. - KevinoDude, on 07/20/2009, -1/+35Those underpants are for my gf, I swear!!
Great article. - JeSTeRSeVeN, on 07/21/2009, -0/+34The site posted by DiggerT definitely works even with NoScript enabled.
Son of a bitch. - CoD4, on 07/21/2009, -1/+35porn mode
- scuba7183, on 07/21/2009, -1/+35Pics with your girlfriend wearing them or they're yours.
aka: ***** or gtfo - tmyprod, on 07/21/2009, -0/+34Went there, its actually a site about astronomical black holes.
...that sounds even worse - JungDigg, on 07/21/2009, -9/+42NoScript told it to talk to the hand.
- klitzbtc, on 07/21/2009, -0/+32adultfriendfinder is obviously the popup add that ABP won't catch, same with livejasmin. Wow, I watch too much porn.
- inactive, on 07/21/2009, -2/+33All I got was some crappy 1993-era page with an atrocious Windows logo to the right.
The suck-force is strong in this one. - mikemehak, on 07/21/2009, -11/+41why do people get upset about this? you're on the internet. if you think you're anonymous, you're an idiot.
- tmyprod, on 07/21/2009, -0/+29I'm afraid of what that site might actually be.
- AboveandBeyond, on 07/21/2009, -0/+27no we know where you've been....blackholes.com
- CaviMike, on 07/21/2009, -2/+29How have I not heard of spankwire?
*click* - win98sucks, on 07/20/2009, -3/+28bah, it works on FireFox too. If FireFox was the first to fix this I could perhaps convince some of my friends with... interesting... browsing habbits to _finally_ make the switch.
- yocouchdigga, on 07/20/2009, -2/+26it takes a certain amount of wit to successfully pull off a pedobear (or any other meme) in a comment, you have none. stop trying.
- enantiodromia, on 07/21/2009, -0/+22every ad company looks at your browsing history
- Lorddias, on 07/21/2009, -2/+23And by porn mode he means Private Browsing in Firefox, or you can use incognito mode for Chrome.
- cJw314, on 07/21/2009, -4/+25***** iloveburritos.
- thegrantman, on 07/20/2009, -0/+20They already have .
- inactive, on 07/21/2009, -1/+20thegoatlove
on 07/16/2009
I see london
I see france
I see you shopping online at Victoria's Secret for underpants :)
stealing comments, bravo - JungDigg, on 07/21/2009, -3/+22No, a different one.
- splicerslicer, on 07/21/2009, -0/+18I'm going to at least thank you for not polluting this comment section with 50 lines of ASCII pedobear.
- jesusisapervert, on 07/21/2009, -0/+18The computers... not women.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 07/21/2009, -3/+20> "The same NoScript that modified Adblock without permission or notification?"
Do you know you sound like a wife who's mad at her husband and brings up that one time, years ago, that he looked just a little too long at another woman? - PxCxG, on 07/21/2009, -4/+21Use NoScript and you'll have your history and sites like this won't be able to do anything.
- deadpoetic333, on 07/21/2009, -0/+16Interesting that if you remove adultfriendfinder you have the same browsing history as I do.
- holdenkarau, on 07/20/2009, -0/+15Doesn't use your cookies, would be difficult to read cookies from other sites (that security/privacy scare was along time ago with double click not playing nice). This uses a design flaw with how CSS/link visited works to determine the browser history. If you are interested the javascript file is hist.js , you can take a poke at it for the specifics.
- MasteRR, on 07/21/2009, -1/+14Ad companies have ethics? Not last I checked.
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