[ChemistCat]

Correct me if I'm not understanding this correctly. You are saying that Jim Robinson can see what other sites we've been to?

I have no guilty conscience here, since I no longer even lurk at places like DU, but I just don't think I believe that I could have understood you correctly. FR is just one window I have open while I compulsively check news sites and my email sites again and again. ;-) I can't believe he can see what else I'm doing (nor do I particularly believe he cares.)

You ban trolls, you don't tag and release and monitor their movements...right?

[Fred Mertz]

It's not JimRob that you have to worry about. It's NSA (no such agency) that monitors your every mouse move and click.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

While I don't know the exact mechanics of it, there is HTTP code called referrer fields that allows a webmaster to see what web pages were last visited by a certain browser.

Link that particular browser to a particular name and you can see where an individual comes from with little trouble.

I could be wrong and if I am would someone please enlighten me.

[Devil_Anse]

You ban trolls, you don't tag and release and monitor their movements... right?

The troll is humanely shot with a tranquilizer dart and gently lifted onto a sterile table. Then concerned scientists tag it and later they release it into the wild. Later, migration patterns are checked.