gzipped_tar's Journal: More evidence of /.'s secret, hypocritical user tracking/ad

This is a follow-up of a previous journal entry "Ads Disabled, or Not". In that post I revealed how Slashdot tracked you and gave your reading behavior profile to ad companies even if you had "ad disabled" selected AND NoScript blocking those 3rd-party spying companies.

I never tried to discover the exact mechanism of NoScript-bypassing by reading the /.'s SNAFU javascript code. I guess the reason of NoScript not working is /. uses its own (and its corporate overlord's) javascript, which is whitelisted, to send the tracking information, rather than just inserting the vendor-hosted javascript in the page source like you next-door blogger.

OK, apparently some of the customer-spying mercenaries has pissed off the corporate overlords. coremetrics.com, a user tracking service once used extensively by /., has been replaced by scorecardresearch.com.

Or perhaps it's the other way around, that /. has pissed off coremetrics because too many tech-savvy readers here knows about /.'s hypocritical user tracking and has blocked those attempts successfully, thus preventing coremetrics from reaching the goal of mining enough data from /..

Anyway, who cares. Let n00bs be tracked and spied on by those filthy mercenaries. Real Slashdotters(TM) has already given up the last little trust on Slashdot, if any.