Maxwell's silver hammer
Posted by dirtyfilthy on March 27, 2008 at 08:43 AM
What would happen if your browser history, instead of being an intensely personal and private thing, was made absolutely public? I guess I'm about to find out, because I've just put a rolling 24 hour list online here. The internet as performance art. I'm kinda wondering if this will change my behavior. It's a lot of information to give away, but perhaps nobody will care. All I know is, if somebody I found in anyway interesting had their browser history online I'd be sniffing through that shit like a professor through an undergraduates underwear pile.
Yeah. My awareness that someone might be watching could change things. You don't want to scratch your balls in public. On the other hand, on all those reality TV shows where the participants are filmed 24/7 eventually they just stop caring about the camera.
I don't think anyone has done this before, least-ways not voluntarily. Just like the idea of being as transparent as humanly possible.
Gonna upgrade features etc later, will write more about how this affects my day-to-day, if indeed it does.
ob-la-di, ob-la-da – life goes on.
VIOLATE YOUR OWN PRIVACY MOTHERFUCKERS, DO IT BEFORE SOMEBODY ELSE DOES!
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Very interesting.
the idea of keeping my public and private faces in sync really appeals to me
Yeah, absolutely. A long time ago I thought that clearing your history was kind of lame. But now I jealously protect my privacy! Hah. I suspect all that my history would reveal would be where I get my torrents and how totally boring I am.
No doubt I am also boring as fuck, which is why this doesn't worry me too much.
Does the list contain evil (nominal evil, of course, not the capital kind)? I got a pernicious pop-up 'your PC may be infected' thingy, and another tiny window (both of which inspired me to do the old 'force quit') when I went to look at it. Made me think of the D1rtyf1lthy of olde ...
Anyway, I think it's a great idea ...
I wish! but no.
ahh well, that time i clicked one of those six degrees links (life-lesson) and got sent to (what I think was) a GNAA last measure page was no fun anyway!
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