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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by makarhum on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:48PM (#16620892)
Similar idea than https://uriteller.io. This is nice way to check whether your end to end encrypted chat is really secure or not.
Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by jstanley on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:52PM (#16620949)
Uri Teller is a perfect name, that's brilliant.
Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by softawre on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:27PM (#16622779)
Also a lot better for simple use cases since it doesn't require an email address.
Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by duck on Monday March 19, 2018 @09:13PM (#16625077)
I created a similar idea a while back when Gmail started caching images. The main advantage is the image itself contains the log: http://cache-logger.herokuapp.com/hello-world

Code can be found here: https://github.com/kale/image-cache-logger

Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by bb88 on Monday March 19, 2018 @09:02PM (#16624995)
This is brilliant. They recommend using a url shortener, but I want to see if anyone is parsing comments and visiting urls from HN.

https://uriteller.io/7S6asCJSwrOzApjG84hIRA

Edited to add:

Here's the view key if you're interested. Just append it to the end of uriteller.io:

ZBt0gGoUHtIsyQ7KFwikYg

A crawler on AWS hit it two minutes after I posted it.

Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by cottsak on Monday March 19, 2018 @10:49PM (#16625634)
Lots of Mac users with out of date OS :S https://uriteller.io/ZBt0gGoUHtIsyQ7KFwikYg
Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by dorgo on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:09AM (#16626736)
I clicked the link, but I'm not a bot, I swear!