doubleclick monitoring web browsing habits
Hal
hfinney at shell.portal.com
Fri Jun 14 20:11:54 PDT 1996
From: "Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl at unix.asb.com>
> Lynx running under Unix can find out who you are on the system by
> checking your user id and the hostname.
When I run lynx (2.3.7 beta) to <URL:
http://www.anonymizer.com/cgi-bin/snoop.pl >, it says:
Here's a sampling of the kind of information that a site can collect
on you (please wait a moment):
Your computer is a Unix box.
Your Internet browser is Lynx.
You are coming from jobe.shell.portal.com.
You just visited the Anonymizer Home Page.
No user name here.
Also, when I follow a mailto: link it asks me to input the email address
I want the mail to be from! So I don't think it is using local user name
information, although certainly that is potentially available to it.
Hal
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