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What would be a possible use of this attack? I can't think of anything useful you'd do with knowing that you've visited Facebook. And so many people use sites like Facebook you might get a better success rate just always returning "visited" rather than measuring this way!


If a malicious website can tell which banking websites you have visited, it can show a phishing page that looks just like your bank.


Maybe you could use it to only show those social sharing widgets that are for services the visitor actually uses. Though I guess WebIntents will eventually be a better way to handle that.


Ad retargeting without going through one of the high-reach ad networks. Or any product site instantly knowing which competitors you've researched, and tailoring their pricing to that.




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