I've seen this used in the wild quite a few times. I'm pretty sure dome of the "universal share this button" widgets use history sniffing to put sites they know you use at the front if the list.
Some years ago, some people at Stanford developed the "Safe History" Firefox extension as a means of limiting IIRC history/cache sniffing via CSS. As far as I know, the extension's currency has lapsed. The idea remains valid.