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the other day I read about a piece of java script code, that would allow webmasters to see what sites people went to before and after going to a webmaster's website.
It caused a lot of controversy and now I'm wondering what I could do about not having people see what sites I go to before/after going to their websites?
Is it even legal for them to track that?
If so don't most web analysts track that, if they use java script instead of web logs?
Do they see exactly who went were before/after coming to their site or does it only show them where people are most likely to go/come from without tying that data to a unique IP address?
I could imagine worse things, but if it's possible I wouldnt want to allow every webmaster to know my exact browsing behavior. Ive heard it was possible to use firefox with a certain extension(?) that would disable webmasters from track such details about you?
thank you
But Ill still switch to firefox and get that referrer extension, I guess, because I read that it would be possible to code something that would allow to tie ip address and your browsing behavior together..
anyways thx
It can't tell where you have been before.
What it does is hold a DB of 1000 links, and compares them to those of the viewers cache (I think).
Just as your links change from not clicked to visited when you return to a site, so they can use the same technique to see if the link to a site in their DB has been visited or not.
Thats all.
I remember seeing an example of it a few years ago and it had sites I had visited marked as visited. It's a lot of client side code, but you could get some good info on what competitors are cross feeding users in your niche.
