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As an exercise, I heard that a toolbar company (who shall remain nameless) ran an experiment to record a client-side hash of the DOM of some particular static p
by robk 17y ago
As an exercise, I heard that a toolbar company (who shall remain nameless) ran an experiment to record a client-side hash of the DOM of some particular static pages and found that something like 30%-40% of users had modified or tampered results. Some of this could be spyware, some the antivirus add-ins, but still shockingly high for static content I thought.
- aristus 17y ago"DOM model" or innerHTML? Did they control for normal modifications that browsers do, like inserting missing <tbody> tags, removing whitespace and the like? Any more data on the nature or amount of modification?
- robk 17y agoI believe he was looking pretty closely at the entire DOM rather than specifically innerHTML but I didn't really dig down on that. As for the browser mods, he controlled to look at the difference holding browser version/OS steady, so the changes would be consistent inside the browser,version,os pairing. It was a rather scientific approach imo.