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aroraborealis ([personal profile] aroraborealis) wrote2008-02-20 12:44 pm
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ljtoys

Several of you have been curious about how I identified my troll (*wave* Hi, Rosie! I see you're still reading through [livejournal.com profile] dakotakym's friends page! Having fun?), so I want to write a little blurb about the tool I used, with thanks to [livejournal.com profile] spike, who pointed it out as a fun toy a few months ago: It's LJToys (http://ljtoys.org.uk/) and it allows you to see who's reading your journal, how they get there, what their IP address is, etc.

I initially found it a little disconcerting quite how much information can be gathered about me from my web surfing habits, but now, I'm glad to have a sense of the sorts of information that pretty much anyone can have about me, with little or no work on their part. It is, in fact, a fun little toy, with, in my case, a nice side effect of confirming a suspicion I've had for a while. If it's the sort of thing you might enjoy, check it out.