iNow Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Am I the only one who sees the OP as a backhanded way to spam and drive clicks to a crap video? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVat Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 3 hours ago, Sensei said: Clouds are moving in the foreground, which gives the impression that the sun is moving.. You would think this would be blindingly obvious. iNow might be right - possibly a way to set a cookie. Embedding videos on a forum can result in cookies being set by the video hosting website, potentially collecting information about the user's browsing habits. I would advise everyone do a cache/cookie clean after watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sensei Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 29 minutes ago, TheVat said: You would think this would be blindingly obvious. iNow might be right - possibly a way to set a cookie. Embedding videos on a forum can result in cookies being set by the video hosting website, potentially collecting information about the user's browsing habits. I would advise everyone do a cache/cookie clean after watching. A regular user does not have access to YouTube cookies.. There are three types of cookies. HTTP cookies, JavaScript local supercookies and JavaScript session supercookies. JS cookies are set and retrieved from JavaScript. HTTP cookies are sent from your browser when you visit the site. They are all stored on the user's computer. Optionally, they may also be stored on the server. It depends on the webmaster/administrators of the visited site. Clearing the cache and cookies does not guarantee no recognition if you visit the same site again. People use Google accounts, Apple IDs, etc. Without a Google account on your smartphone, you can't use the Google Play Store, for example. And every time you visit YouTube, you are asked to sign in, etc. Google stores the IMEI of your smartphones when you create an account, or sign in to the existing account from the next model, i.e. they know that someone sold you a smartphone, gave it to you, that you stole it from someone, that you found someone else's smartphone, etc. etc. You would have to click on his personal website to use any of these cookies. Or he would have to use web beacon on his website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacon The amount of knowledge is quite large. He would have to have his own server, know HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, etc. etc. to be able to create such ID theft functionality. And it would work regardless of whether he wrote a YouTube video post or anything else. You wouldn't know that his post was using this technology.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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