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		mildweed on Sept 2, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What the Internet knows about you This is now the 5th time this topic has been posted to HN. May 2008 was when it all started: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=248558 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=404564 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=617546 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=717802

marchewa on Sept 2, 2009 [–]

That's true -- there have been several projects making use of the CSS :visited history sniffing technique. The method itself was originally reported in early 2000. See http://whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com/docs/details.html#re...

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