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A Reddit Forum That Guesses Who You Are Based on What's in Your Fridge (newyorker.com)
87 points by moonka on Oct 28, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 17 comments



Direct link to the forum:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FridgeDetective/

The article is an interesting summary, but in my opinion doesn’t add much value over “there’s a forum that does this”. So you might want to check it out directly.


Thanks. Honestly just the headline and the link to the subreddit is all we needed. Dedicating an entire article around a subreddit seems like overkill.


It makes perfect sense for the original medium: print magazine


Pretty interesting! Although a bit easier than one might expect.

For example, the author notes that they figured out the author owns a dog and is lactose-intolerant. Seems impressive, but the author has dog treats and Lactaid milk in their fridge - a bit of a giveaway!


You are literally what has been in your fridge over the last 12 months.


But only if you ate it.


And stars, of course.


The 2-year-old ketchup in your fridge... is made of stardust.


Only if you never eat out.


Is there something like this for computer desktop icons?



What if you don't have any? What if the desktop can't have any?

(Well that's easy, you're a Linux user and you're a developer).


judging by the fact that you said computer desktop icons instead of browser tabs, you’re probably a developer


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It seems like this happened:

1. I clicked the keyboard shortcut for back

2. newyorker.com put a popup div about email lists or whatever

3. I clicked the keyboard shortcut for back again and it went back.

So I had to click the keyboard shortcut twice.

Can this be?


Yes, thanks to a modern web browser api called `history.pushState` web sites can modify your history [0]. Useful for single page apps where you want the back button to revert the page to previous states as if they were previous 'pages', abused by web publications the world over to insert a phantom subscription nag page to their website.

But if pushState didn't exist they could probably just hit that nag-page first and then load the desired page, hopefully fast enough for you not to notice.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API


this won't work with non Americans, good luck identifying local European products with different diet and home cooking

they would never guess i have children because there is zero children targeted products in my fridge and only products for children there are yogurts, fruit and vegetables




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