I can manipulate your Amazon recommendations without IFrames

#1

Post by unbehagen » Fri, Mar 30, 2012, 4:47 PM UTC

I can manipulate your Amazon recommendations without IFrames
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Re: I can manipulate your Amazon recommendations without IFrames

#2

Post by unbehagen » Fri, Mar 30, 2012, 4:47 PM UTC

This approach to tamper with recently viewed items on Amazon embeds the articles as hidden images:

Of course, this only works if your browser accepts third-party cookies and is inspired by this original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3766544 .

Are the results any different from the original? Does using an image instead of an iframe have any effects on the results? What are your thoughts on this?

Re: I can manipulate your Amazon recommendations without IFrames

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Post by unbehagen » Fri, Mar 30, 2012, 4:59 PM UTC

unbehagen wrote: post #2

This approach to tamper with recently viewed items on Amazon embeds the articles as hidden images: Of course, this only works if your browser accepts third-party cookies and is inspired by this original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3766544 . Are the results any different from the original? Does using an image instead of an iframe have any effects on the results? What are your thoughts on this?

oh, I just found out that another user tried the same thing and wrote about it before me: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3768030