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Is the weasel company's javascript (and/or flash bug) logging all form input back to its own servers to capture name/email when you sign up somewhere else? Are
by seiji 14y ago
Is the weasel company's javascript (and/or flash bug) logging all form input back to its own servers to capture name/email when you sign up somewhere else? Are they capturing credit card numbers too?
We can tell the world all day long this is Bad and Unsafe, but within six months it'll be more popular than ad retargeting and the meebo crapbar (because, hey, analytics!).
- eli 14y agoI can't imagine many legitimate sites participating in this scheme. It would certainly violate many publicly posted privacy policies.
- seiji 14y agoSadly, opportunistic jerkfaces aren't limited by our privacy-hat-wearing engineer imaginations. They can devise much, much worse schemes we would dismiss in five seconds out of "ethical" concerns. (privacy=dead, remember? do anything to track people and manipulate them into giving you money. if you aren't selling anything, sell the tracking as leadgen.)
- ams6110 14y agoI pretty much assume that anything I post to any website could someday come back to haunt me. Expect no privacy on the internet, and you won't be disappointed.
- antoncohen 14y ago> Are they capturing credit card numbers too? Doesn't look like it, at least not intentionally. They are trying to capture name, email, phone, and company. Source: http://formalyzer.com/formalyze_call.js http://formalyzer.com/formalyze_call.js