How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites

Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by cm2012 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:10AM (#17824762)

Is this that different than publicizing bugs? He tested it for a small amount of time, noticed a real security vulnerability (he could collect leads), and publicized his findings knowing Google would likely punish him for it.

It's mildly unethical at worse, considering he could have happily done profitable leadgen at scale and it would have likely never been caught if he kept quiet.

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Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by dejanseo on Thursday August 23, 2018 @03:07AM (#17825184)

That's exactly right. Google has already punished me once for exposing a flaw (which they still haven't fixed): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748094

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Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by londons_explore on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:44AM (#17825103)

Except he would have been caught by a few of his users.

If I notice a scummy page impersonating Google, I'm gonna alert Google so they can do something about it. (For example add the page to the safebrowsing list)

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Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by cm2012 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:07PM (#17828405)

Google very very rarely does anything with individual complaints sent in with their automated systems. You'd have to get a post to the top of HN.

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Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by TheForumTroll on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:07AM (#17825456)

"Years"

"Small amount of time"

?!?

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