Site guesses your sex via age-old web flaw

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[b]Using your browser URL history to estimate gender[/b]

http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/

Via:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/browser_history_leakage/

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 0% Likelihood of you being MALE is 100%

:wink:

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Hmmm ā€¦ I must be well ā€œin touchā€ with my female side ā€¦ LOL

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 50% Likelihood of you being MALE is 50%
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Hi CharleyO,

That is why there is NoScript add-on for Fx or Flock, and they can stay guessingā€¦
And remember a person is as old as he or she feelsā€¦

polonus

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Well they didnā€™t even get to guess in my case as it appears they have a problem.

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CharleyO, Iā€™ve got the same scare as you.
Iā€™d consider that a safe guess. 1/2 right and only 1/2 wrong. :slight_smile:

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Same guess for me 50/50 after I allowed it to run javascript (noscript add-on) but kept Stealther on. When I disabled Stealther it was slightly different, but I keep very little in my browser history.

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 43% Likelihood of you being MALE is 57%

Site Male-Female Ratio
avast.com 1.08
siteadvisor.com 1.22

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guess iā€™m ok ;D