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They can identify you by name/email if you've entered it on a site in their "network". Their network may not be huge, but a (presumably) similar service had a b
by paulgb 14y ago
They can identify you by name/email if you've entered it on a site in their "network". Their network may not be huge, but a (presumably) similar service had a big enough network to capture Sumit Suman's email earlier this week (https://plus.google.com/u/1/106142598193409336347/posts/2jLJ5B4yPYF https://plus.google.com/u/1/106142598193409336347/posts/2jLJ...)
- eli 14y agoSure, but how can they possibly know anything about a site that does not includes their Javascript or make any calls to their API?
- untog 14y agoThe site does include their Javascript. So I signed up for a demo account and installed (and hastily removed) the tracker
- eli 14y agoPerhaps I'm being dense here, but the blog post says he signed up for the demo AFTER getting an email that included a "snapshot" of visitors.
- BHSPitMonkey 14y agoThe snapshot is fake: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4911542 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4911542
- gabemart 14y agoThe article author signed up for a demo account after receiving the b2b marketing email containing "a report snapshot for 42Floors.com showing names, companies, and emails of site visitors and the information seemed plausible." Like the parent, I have no idea how this information could have been obtained. It lists search terms, how could a 3rd party track clicks from SERPs to a website not running their tracking code?
- 123milk 14y agoIf the site where the form was filled out sets the users' collected info as rather obviously-named Javascript cookies or PHP session vars (i.e. $_SESSION[email]=$_POST[email]), that's one method, no? Was anything mentioned about the browser used? Maybe when "auto-fill" browser options are enabled for a user there's a way to access that data.