Tracking the Trackers: To Catch a History Thief | Stanford Center for Internet and Society
july 2011 by jm
jaysus. the Epic Marketplace online ad network performs a history stealing attack to determine if the viewer has recently visited 'pages about getting pregnant and fertility, including at the Mayo Clinic'. very very scummy -- massive privacy violation (via Adam Shostack)
privacy
history
browsers
history-stealing
css
attacks
security
via:adamshostack
epic-marketplace
nai
ads
july 2011 by jm
TextAid - Google Chrome extension
may 2011 by jm
"It's All Text" for Chrome. annoyingly, Chrome blocks forking of processes by extensions, so a daemon process (provided) needs to be running separately, but otherwise it works nicely. Particularly nice is that the daemon is just written in dependency-hell-free perl rather than Node.JS ;)
text
editing
chrome
extensions
add-ons
browsers
web
may 2011 by jm
Chrome extension: edit textarea in an external editor
december 2009 by jm
very new, but heading in the right direction (although the idea of using a browser action is probably not correct). This is the last hold-up for me to switch
chrome
web
browsers
google
editing
external
editors
vim
emacs
from delicious
december 2009 by jm
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