Bookmarked Sites Idea

[Britney]

Is it possible to know what sites other people have bookmarked on their browser?

Is it feasible to have a website that, when visited, runs a script on the viewers browser and gathers all the sites that browser has bookmarked, then accumulates everything to see which sites have been bookmarked the most frequently.

Possible? Legal? Would it be useful, and a fair representation of the most "favorite" sites on the internet?

Beyond that, if a collection of your "favorite places" was collected and run against other user's "favorite places", then the program could direct you to other similar sites you may be interested in but not yet aware of...

[iGuess]

It is certainly possible through means involving spyware. You could easily, with the correct knowledge, devise a virus to do this. Legal? Probably not.

You could possibly find a way to do it without spyware or any installed files. You go to a webpage, agree to the terms and conditions (as they are so aptly called on every website on earth) and then it would proceed to get your bookmarks and store that information without storing any of your personal information. That would be pretty legal.

[lulu]

You can do this with tracking cookies, but Spywareblaster, Spybot and Ad-aware will catch on to it so it won't last very long. Those cookies will be blocked eventually, and NOBODY WILL LIKE YOU AT ALL FOR DOING IT!