What the internet knows about you.

kinmel · May 21, 2010, 20:46:45

What the internet knows about you is a website that checks what information your browser is releasing to the world.

You can select different security checks from the left hand list.

For me, all categories return " Congratulations, we did not find anything in this category in your browser history.Feel free to try our other browser history tests."; which is the result you want to see.

Bill · May 21, 2010, 21:11:01

Half a dozen pages from the BBC News website and a couple from Wiki... don't think I'm too worried about that!

adamr8965 · May 21, 2010, 21:23:23

It found nothing on me..

pctech · May 21, 2010, 21:25:26

Absolutely nothin'

But then I do have FF set to purge history.

Simon · May 21, 2010, 22:01:20

It knew I'd been to Amazon and eBay, but only because I don't clear my history every time. Pretty easy to do so, though, if one is that paranoid.

Bill · May 21, 2010, 22:26:51

There must be getting on for 100 sites in my history list... if it can only find Wiki and the beeb then it's not doing a very good job!

(Opera on a Mac)

john · May 21, 2010, 23:43:15

I think it only lists what it considers are the most popular sites. It only found a few pages from Amazon, ebay and lastfm for me but I haven't got it set to clear my browsing history either.

Bill · May 22, 2010, 07:15:29

Quote from: john on May 21, 2010, 23:43:15
I think it only lists what it considers are the most popular sites.

The results were from the "Full history search" option... and it missed entries for Youtube and Facebook!

Sorry, not impressed.

Baz · May 22, 2010, 07:41:55

found nothing in FF but just a couple in IE which I knew were still in history.One question about it though,when using FF I visited that site and it found nothing even though i'd already been to Netters site and another BEFORE the test one so surely those would be in my history.Why didnt it find them.Also did the test twice and it still didnt find itself

pctech · May 22, 2010, 10:11:04

Think if you set it to never remember history it just doesn't bother caching anything.

Rik · May 22, 2010, 10:18:45

Clean here, despite the fact I'd just been on the Amazon site.

Technical Ben · May 22, 2010, 12:41:27

But does it return any info? Or does it use the same trick as Pctechs signature?
As in, I'm sure there are loads of commands to open up bookmarks etc in the browser. Having a website do this is a nice trick, but not subjecting you to privacy invasion.

pctech · May 22, 2010, 12:50:55

As far as I'm aware it uses the details normally supplied to a server, the origin IP address (the server application looks up the allocation) and the user agent details (OS and browser)

Technical Ben · May 22, 2010, 14:02:20

Oh, I know that's what your sig does. Bit that's like saying I know you exist, and you like in the UK. Not too much to worry about.

Niall · May 22, 2010, 14:46:17

It shows the BBC site (my homepage) and youtube as I was just watching this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f64XZRRs0jA

I have my browser set to delete everything when I close it, so there's next to never anything in the history.

Rik · May 22, 2010, 15:39:26

Nice piece.

Tina · May 29, 2010, 14:48:08

it shows Facebook on mine - no surprise just been there and it is my home page