Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: What You Should Know About History Sniffing. https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9006 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: What You Should Know About History Sniffing. en-US Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:03:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.2 Anonymous on "What You Should Know About History Sniffing." https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9006#post-86455 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:27:43 +0000 Anonymous 86455@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704767804575654910216593180.html

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/12/what-you-should-know-about-history-sniffing/

What You Should Know About History Sniffing.
Web sites are using simple Javascript tricks to snoop into visitors’ Web browsing history.
This reconnaissance works because browsers display links to sites you’ve visited differently than ones you haven’t: By default, visited links are purple and unvisited links are blue. History-sniffing code running on a Web page simply checks to see if your browser displays links to specific URLs as purple or blue.

http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2009/06/stealing_history_without_javas.php