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boucher on July 18, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using your browser URL history to estimate gender

I would be pretty surprised if people weren't already doing this.

paulgb on July 18, 2008 [–]

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 on July 18, 2008 | [–]

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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