Cursor:none abuse (trick users into clicking Facebook 'like')

Re:Cursor:none abuse (trick users into clicking Facebook 'li... by pnewhook on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @03:43PM (#3672767)

This is brilliant, but now it's only a matter of time until it's in actual use. Sort of like how evercookie was a clever hack meant to call attention to privacy concerns, then was put into actual production sites.

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Re:Cursor:none abuse (trick users into clicking Facebook 'li... by Zirro on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @03:53PM (#3672813)

Do you have any examples of sites/companies that put the techniques into use as a direct result of Evercookie exposing them?

EDIT: Why am I being downvoted for this question? I am seriously interested, so that I can avoid contact with them.

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Re:Cursor:none abuse (trick users into clicking Facebook 'li... by jackshepherd on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @04:12PM (#3672908)

I'm not sure if you can say that it's a direct result of Evercookie, but a number of high profile sites use this kind of tech - for example KissMetrics.com is used by a number of big companies, and they use ETAG cookies, Flash cookies - the lot.

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Re:Cursor:none abuse (trick users into clicking Facebook 'li... by hornbaker on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @06:38PM (#3673459)

And KissMetrics and their customers caught heat from it: http://www.extremetech.com/internet/91966-aol-spotify-gigaom...

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