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How websites can find out which other sites you visit

19-Feb-10

When a web browser renders a page that includes hyperlinks to other pages, one of two different colours is normally used for each link, depending on whether you already have visited the page to which the link points. To make this feature work, the browser needs a history file, in other words a list of [...]

Improve your online privacy by trimming the headers your browser sends

01-Feb-10

The EFF runs a very useful web-based service that estimates the uniqueness of the HTTP header lines that your browser sends to every web server from which you request a page or other content.