How does VKontakte know which site I visited?

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kafeman2012-06-30 19:32:57

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kafeman, 2012-06-30 19:32:57

I hardly use this network, I decided to ~~troll~~ to read the official Habr group , a window appeared:

VK can follow me through its widgets like “I like” or “Comments widget”, but I have Ghostery especially for them .

And yes, what antivirus for GNU/Linux do you recommend? I only heard about ClamAV, but as far as I remember, this is more of a server solution...

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evnuh, 2012-06-30
@kafeman

Guys, you don't seem to be on VKontakte. How will he know? On all contact pages, links are never displayed directly, they are all redirected through vk.com/away.php, that's where he knows.
I also had the same. I went to the porn site only by clicking on links from VKontakte publics and nothing else, and after a while he suspected this site of malware and warned me that I had recently switched to them.

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mukizu, 2012-06-30
@mukizu

For the first time I see that they asked for antivirus under the tench ...

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SerDIDG, 2012-06-30
@SerDIDG

Today I also got this, though I have never visited this site, and there is nothing like it in history.

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Zoom_spb, 2012-06-30
@Zoom_spb

Is this really a contact?

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Veliant, 2012-06-30
@Veliant

there was sort of a way to determine visited sites by checking the color of the links when they were displayed. Only I have big doubts that VK uses such dirty methods. In any case, write to their support

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XimikS, 2012-06-30
@XimikS

Today, this sign also came out completely randomly) I came in from a new tab), I, of course, got scared, changed the password, got into the hosts, but everything is clean everywhere, so this is probably just a bug.

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Alexey Bykhun, 2012-06-30
@caffeinum

Doesn't window.history store information about all pages visited?
Or VKontakte cannot have access to it?