I'm in two minds over this web snooping
Site guesses your sex via age-old web flaw | The Register
One of the problems that's plagued netizens since the inception of the world wide web that their browsers have a habit of leaking every site they've visited in the recent past. A quick stop at Blowupdolls.com, Mysecretbusinessproject.net or any other site is available to any webmaster with rudimentary coding skills.
Now the Mike on Ads blog has harnessed this privacy shortcoming into a tool that tries to predict whether the visitor is male or female. It uses a small piece of Javascript, that siphons a browser's URL history and then analyzes the sites visited to guess whether the user is a guy or gal.
My results?
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 50%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 50%
Hmmm....
Comments
Hah! Your web browsing habits give you away; you're more the modern, metrosexual male than you'd have us believe :-)
ps I'm actually too scared to even look and see what my results would reveal.
Posted by: The Remittance Man | July 29, 2008 9:55 AM
I got the same thing. I wonder how many chicks browse to the LaRue Tactical website for Aimpoint mounts? (http://stores.homestead.com/Laruetactical/StoreFront.bok) What a douche.
Posted by: DirtCrashr | July 29, 2008 7:57 PM
Based on your result[s] I must wonder if this computer model was originally developed for the IPCC and/or Dr. James Hansen and his GISS.
Posted by: teqjack | July 29, 2008 8:22 PM
That machine could get a job forecasting the weather. Be about as accurate as anything else they've got.
Posted by: Aon | July 30, 2008 10:57 AM