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paulgb
on July 18, 2008
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Using your browser URL history to estimate gender
Yeah, it's a pretty massive privacy issue, but at least I would hope people wouldn't do it and expect to get away with it.
boucher
on July 18, 2008
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I would be pretty surprised if people weren't already doing this.
paulgb
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It would be interesting to find out. If any of the big players are doing it, there would be a huge backlash if they got caught for it.
boucher
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Ad companies already use cookies all over the place to track users, I'm not sure this would be that much bigger of a deal.
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