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> Never going to happen, I wouldn't be so sure. Advertisement industry uses a lot of tricks that are not really different from this one. Some people don't like

> Never going to happen, I wouldn't be so sure. Advertisement industry uses a lot of tricks that are not really different from this one. Some people don't like them but most people don't notice or don't care. Another example is Facebook that keeps adding features that reduce people's privacy, you see a lot of complains on the web, yet they don't change anything because 99% are fine with it. So it's definitely not because a trick can be detected, that it isn't worth using it.

freehunter 13y ago
But in Facebook's example, the 1% who were not fine with it made enough noise to have Facebook regulated by the federal government. They are now mandated to honor your privacy settings, no matter what. So that example falls a bit short in that if it's egregious enough of a trick, regulators will take notice.