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How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by Mike on 04-25-2009 at 05:54 PM
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Originally posted by http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/25/internet-privacy-start-panic-tells-you-where-you-have-been/
Start Panic tries to raise public awareness for Internet privacy issues on their website. They have implemented a script that will gather information about previously used websites from the user’s web browser. Two aspects make this interesting. The first is that it is a cross-browser solution. It works in all major web browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Safari. The second aspect is that it will display results even if the user clears his web browser’s history, cookies and cache regularly. The current browsing session is recorded normally in all web browsers which usually have options to automatically clear these traces on exit only.
EDIT: I did a quick Google, and found this (read the comments). So that kinda explains it...
RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by ShawnZ on 04-25-2009 at 05:58 PM
psh.... me and dt have done that before
RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by Discrate on 04-25-2009 at 06:38 PM
oh god, everyone will know about my meatspin fetish
RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by Jarrod on 04-26-2009 at 12:05 AM
meh it doesn't pick up incognito/stealther windows from chrome and fire fox, it also left alot of websites out, the worst thing on the list was TPB, it's still cool though
RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by Chris4 on 04-26-2009 at 12:51 AM
Hmm. That sucks.
Not really bothered how they do it, just wish they couldn't.
I signed in petition. 
RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by tony on 04-26-2009 at 01:03 AM
*steals background*
RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by blessedguy on 04-26-2009 at 01:04 AM
quote:They're all nice =P
Originally posted by tony
*steals background*
Signed it too, btw.
RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by Jarrod on 04-26-2009 at 01:27 AM
it doesn't really bother me that people know I've visited
quote:
Originally posted by start panic
# startpanic.com
# fav Ruby Tutorial - Learn Ruby
# fav MacZOT | One Great Mac Software. D...
# fav Flock Browser - The Social Web Bro...
# fav MAXON - The makers of CINEMA ...
# fav Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
# fav Messenger Plus! Live Forums
# fav Ruby Programming Language
# fav Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu
# fav RoboForm: Password Manager, Form F...
# fav xkcd - A Webcomic - Security Quest...
# fav Please wait...
# fav Ogame
# fav Yahoo!
# fav Adobe
# fav Google
# fav Download music, movies, games, sof...
# fav Free Downloads Encyclopedia - Soft...
# fav Speedtest.net - The Global Broadba...
# fav W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
# fav Google
RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by segosa on 04-28-2009 at 06:10 AM
Unless it's not obvious by now, all it does is create links to each of the sites in its large database (http://startpanic.com/db/db_en.txt) and check the a:visited colour to see if it's #FF0000. That petition is stupid. This is how browsers work, and this "issue" is never going to be fixed.
RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by prashker on 04-28-2009 at 12:13 PM
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Originally posted by segosa
Unless it's not obvious by now, all it does is create links to each of the sites in its large database (http://startpanic.com/db/db_en.txt) and check the a:visited colour to see if it's #FF0000. That petition is stupid. This is how browsers work, and this "issue" is never going to be fixed.
old, it was mentioned the day Mike posted, in his "edit" link.
quote:
Originally posted by Mike
EDIT: I did a quick Google, and found this (read the comments). So that kinda explains it...
RE: RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by segosa on 04-28-2009 at 10:03 PM
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Originally posted by SonicSam
quote:
Originally posted by segosa
Unless it's not obvious by now, all it does is create links to each of the sites in its large database (http://startpanic.com/db/db_en.txt) and check the a:visited colour to see if it's #FF0000. That petition is stupid. This is how browsers work, and this "issue" is never going to be fixed.
old, it was mentioned the day Mike posted, in his "edit" link.
quote:
Originally posted by Mike
EDIT: I did a quick Google, and found this (read the comments). So that kinda explains it...
Good job. Did you not notice that despite the fact that it was linked to in the original post, no one actually bothered to read it?
RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by prashker on 04-28-2009 at 10:06 PM
I was unaware of such a situation and I thank you for being easygoing and helpful in this time. I understand.
RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by Rolando on 04-29-2009 at 02:57 AM
All it showed on mine was the startpanic page. hah.
RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic) by -dt- on 04-29-2009 at 05:55 AM
it has a decent list of urls