HaveYourFriendsBeenThere: Remotely check any browser history for naughty sites

Do you want to know which of your friends have been looking at naughty websites? Or perhaps you want to know who among your coworkers have been visiting NSFW websites while at work? Then you should check out HaveYourFriendsBeenThere? It is a web tool that enables you remotely snoop into someones browser history and check for naughty websites.

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To find out if someone has been visiting naughty sites, just copy the link generated by HYFBT, send the link to your friend and wait for the results. Once your friend opens the link, the site will immediately look into your friend’s browser and will send you a list of the adult sites he has opened. This tool also shows the results to your friends as well.

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However, keep in mind that a generated link only works for one person, and you cannot use the same link for checking on other friends. You need to generate a new link from HYFBT to check on another person’s browsing history. Also, some anti-virus applications may block the site from accessing the browser history, making it ineffective for your cautious friends.
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Have Your Friends Been There is a useful and slightly snoopy web app that lets you surprise your friends and catch them.

Features:

  • Find out if your friend has been visiting adult sites.
  • Know which adult sites have been visited.
  • Free, no signup is required.

Check out HaveYourFriendsBeenThere @ www.haveyourfriendsbeenthere.com


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  • Rich_Roast

    Funny, but at the same time sorta creepy and I don’t think I’d wanna invade any of my friends’ privacy this way. If anything this is useful as a reminder that any site could implement this and track what’s in your browser’s history.

    Me goes to edit->preferences->privacy->clear history

  • Val

    I really can’t understand why you are featuring this, and encouraging people to spy on each other that would not ordinarily do so. What other people look at is none of anyone’s business at all. It is supposed to be a private matter for each individual. It’s things like this that led to the rise of the CIA and NSA … BAD CHOICE. You have a valuable service … why included unethical items?

  • kaly

    The site is useful, it actually demonstrates how anyone can easily spy on you.

    Everyone needs to take their security and privacy seriously and implement preventative measures.

  • bleh

    I’m with Val, very useful site but this was a bad choice.. IMHO

  • Rich_Roast

    In a sense it’s a convenient tool for auditing your own, or *with their permission* friends’ browsers’ history for anything embarrassing and in that spirit I think that the site’s useful. Kaly’s right in that if this site can do it so can pretty much anyone. The site’s a bit like a security advisory: everyone, including the bad guys, knows about it but at least the good guys have the chance to take measures where the bad guys already knew anyway. Still, you can’t help but worry about the potential for abuse through phishing.

  • badchoice

    Bad idea, especially considering that the use of this site can even get you jail-time in some countries if you’re caught.

  • nik

    in my opinion invading your friend’s privacy or illegal site of this whole activity have the least of the possible worries. Just think how this software might be used by swindlers and even by government special services. Turn on your firewalls and set it up on the top level of privacy.

  • http://www.compute.ws/ The.Boss@Compute.ws

    What you don’t mention, maybe you weren’t aware, is that just by clicking on edit under the generated link you can choose which sites it searches for (and they don’t have to be porn related either). Which makes it even more dangerous.

  • Rich_Roast

    For goodness sake, the point is this: the site in itself is not as intrinsically evil or dangerous as the method of remotely uncovering a client browser history is. It is a good thing that this be made public. It is easy for people who have something to protect to resolve; modern browsers including firefox, chrome and (I think) ie, safari have private browsing modes, and every browser may have its history wiped. It’s also been pointed out in the article that security software can block this web app. Therefore, making it clear, public knowledge that you can be easily spied upon if these measures are not taken is in the public interest, since those wishing to implement a similar app for nefarious reasons will do so anyway.

    After all, how can you be sure that the next website you visit isn’t embedded with a similar spy?

    • http://www.compute.ws/ The.Boss@Compute.ws

      I agree it’s good that this is brought to the attention of the public. But, honestly, how many people will even get to hear of this, or understand the implications ?

  • Buffet

    I would never do such a thing to an enemy, let alone a friend! No self-respecting adult with a shred of integrity would. Featuring rubbish like this is immoral and unethical. Worst of all – you might end up getting someone hurt.Many people take their privacy very seriously. You should consider the repercussions of posting such drivel. I’m no longer as completely enamored with MakeUseOf, as I once was. Grow up and exercise some judgement!

  • Altzan

    I don’t think that posting this is bad – if you are stupid enough to click some random link a friend sends you, you’re probably too stupid to cover your e-tracks as it is.

    I don’t see how this defaces Makeuseof at all.

  • meh

    ^ Lots of pr0n surfers.

    So if makeuseof doesn’t cover it, it doesn’t exist? Pathetic thinking.

    • http://www.compute.ws The.Boss@Compute.ws

      I think you misunderstand … I can’t speak for other commenters but my comment was certainly not a criticism of MUO – far from it – it’s positive that something like this is brought to the attention of Joe Public. If someone doesn’t like the occasional app or prog they review, out of all the hundreds they review which they DO like, that doesn’t make it a criticism of them. To think that would be … erm … pathetic thinking, as you so eloquently put it. It’s called “having an opinion”.

  • http://thenonhacker.deviantart.com thenonhacker

    Thanks for featuring this! I’m very glad I’m RSS-subscribed to MakeUseOf.com!

    If I were them, I would also include a URL redirection to a website to hide the fact their browser history was spied on.

    And now, I will edit my hosts file to block this site. :P