Facebook And Digg Using Frames To Hijack Web Browers And Spam Users

Posted by VizionQuest on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @03:29PM
from the tomuse.com dept.

http://tomuse.com/framing-spam-diggbar-facebook-hijacks-web-need-your-help/

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Re:Facebook And Digg Using Frames To Hijack Web Browers And ... by gregoryl on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @10:55PM (#553833)

When I first saw this, mixed emotions. Great for them with a business perspective, keeping people "on" your site whilst showing them external content. But bad for the sites being linked to. I'm not even sure if those kind of links would count from a web search perspective (I'm guessing not).

Perhaps time to include the old frame busting java script in websites again?

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Re:Facebook And Digg Using Frames To Hijack Web Browers And ... by ungerik on Thursday April 09, 2009 @12:17AM (#553915)

As far as I know, this practice is illegal in some European states. Will be interesting when the first one sues Facebook...

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Re:Facebook And Digg Using Frames To Hijack Web Browers And ... by eli on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @10:36PM (#553813)

Frames are sooo 12 years ago

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