I can manipulate your Amazon recommendations without IFrames (opens in new tab)

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1 pointsunbehagen13y ago2 comments

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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?

unbehagenOP13y ago

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

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unbehagenOP13y ago

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?

unbehagenOP13y ago

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

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse