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Mike
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O.P.  How the heck does this work? (Start Panic)
http://startpanic.com/
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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...
This post was edited on 04-25-2009 at 05:57 PM by Mike.
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RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic)
psh.... me and dt have done that before
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RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic)
oh god, everyone will know about my meatspin fetish
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Jarrod
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RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic)
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
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Chris4
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RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic)
Hmm. That sucks.
Not really bothered how they do it, just wish they couldn't.
I signed in petition.  |
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| 04-26-2009 12:51 AM |
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RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic)
*steals background*
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| 04-26-2009 01:03 AM |
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RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic)
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Originally posted by tony
*steals background*
They're all nice =P
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| 04-26-2009 01:04 AM |
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Jarrod
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RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic)
it doesn't really bother me that people know I've visited
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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
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# fav Download music, movies, games, sof...
# fav Free Downloads Encyclopedia - Soft...
# fav Speedtest.net - The Global Broadba...
# fav W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
# fav Google
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| 04-26-2009 01:27 AM |
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RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic)
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.
This post was edited on 04-28-2009 at 06:11 AM by segosa.
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| 04-28-2009 06:10 AM |
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RE: How the heck does this work? (Start Panic)
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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.
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Originally posted by Mike
EDIT: I did a quick Google, and found this (read the comments). So that kinda explains it...
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| 04-28-2009 12:13 PM |
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