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cheschire ◴[29 Mar 25 23:43 UTC] No.43519772[source]▶

Can windows apps (not installed from the MS store) enumerate through the window titles of all open windows? How hard would it be for an app to monitor all of your web traffic based on the title alone?

Legit question. ChatGPT isn't super helpful here since it agrees with everything when I'm really looking for someone to say why this isn't really feasible in the real world.

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1. tredre3 ◴[30 Mar 25 04:41 UTC] No.43521404[source]▶

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> How hard would it be for an app to monitor all of your web traffic based on the title alone?

Although not terribly accurate (because of the high variability of page titles), tools like ManicTime and ActivityWatch use windows titles to track your browser history if you don't install the browser plugin.

https://www.manictime.com/

https://activitywatch.net/

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