This one has a link you can send to your friends, to see what they've been using. Determines if you've been to porn sites. This page seems hokey at the moment, I was sure it worked before, though. Here are some more sites that exploit this issue: I wouldn't be surprised that many mobile browsers are capable enough to fall victim too. (It totally pegged me, with 97% certainty) I'm willing to bet that is what your wife had seen. And this place uses that information to determine your gender. It can generate a pretty exhaustive list of places you've been. This sounds like it'd only be marginally useful, but you would be amazed. If the server were to give you a massive list of popular websites, each with a unique visited link, then it would effectively harvest your cache, and know where you've been. Therefore, if the webserver logs a hit for a visited link image, it knows you've been to that URL. If the server were to set a specific picture for a link, it wouldn't get downloaded by the client unless they had already been to that URL. However, that doesn't mean the server can't exploit that information. Instead, the browser checks its cache, and modifies what it sees based on how the server has defined visited links. Now, the server doesn't actually get a list of links you've visited, that would be crazy.
This problem lies with the latter of those options. One color/image for a regular default, another for when you mouseover the link, and another for when you've already visited that link in the past. A site defines different colors/images for links. Only recently have some of them began fixing this issue.įirst off, some background. This is a widespread, common, and ancient issue in web browsers. I assume this is referring to the issue regarding visited links and browser history.
If the DNS resolver configured for your phone and PC is pointing to DNS servers that log and publish name resolution requests, then that is one more accurate way of finding the sites associated with the IPs you are accessing - so check your DNS settings. The IP address alone cannot universally determine the web site you went to, due to the number of sites on virtual servers that share an IP. If your wife has access to the computer or cell after you've used it then she can probably get details from the browser history.
This may be difficult to detect but on the computer you could install a packet sniffer to verify this. If the browser has been modified or hijacked then it may be silently accessing the net via a proxy or may be reporting use to a third party site. If the internet service provider offers this service (under the guise of parental control reporting) and you're using the same ISP for both, then she may see it there. If the subject cell or computer is using a browser configured to use a proxy, then that proxy may allow her to see visited sites. Is your wife a law enforcement officer, by any chance? :)