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by rhizome 5326 days ago
Nope, I mean browser bars from the early-mid 2000s. Comet Cursor, HotBar, and other adware companies that were the Groupon of their day. Lots of deal site plugins used these kinds of plugins to do a kind of rudimentary tracking. You got some..."thing"..and they would have this snippet of js that submitted your clicked urls to their servers. Same as it ever was.