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Re:How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Mar... by unreal37 on Friday May 03, 2013 @02:23PM (#5651696)
I don't think this description is accurate. It makes no sense for an invisible iframe to display the entire ebay homepage to the user - people would notice 100's of server connections and an extra 1MB download for a page view. More likely they found the one Javascript file on ebay that creates the cookie, and ONLY loads that Javascript.
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Re:How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Mar... by Sujan on Friday May 03, 2013 @02:53PM (#5651888)
Well, I know that's how _lots_ of people did it in 2003/2004. The guys I hang out with (ahem...) were some of them. In the more shady parts of the internet it's actually still quite common today. Nobody notices anything.
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