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Tracking your browsing

Posted on: 14th August 2005
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Posted by Phu
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CSS

By using CSS to style the visited links in a list of URL's and then using Javascript to detect this styling, a page can secretly grab your browser history (and send it back to the server). Simple but clever. [via].

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