A Contact Form That Reveals Competitor Information

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by musicinstinct, Jun 7, 2007.

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    This is a post I've made on my blog, but I'm posting it here also because I think you might find it interesting.

    This hack has been posted on a couple of other blogs, but I've adapted it so that it works with the contact form on your website. Basically when a customer submits a contact request through your site you can use this code to scan through their browser history and see which of your competitors they have also visited.

    http://www.marketinghacks.com/web-dev/check-your-competition-with-this-contact-form-hack-to-steal-browser-history/

    It's interesting to know that this is possible, and if you want to stay safe you should clear your history regularly!
     
    musicinstinct, Jun 7, 2007 IP
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    Hehee, pretty interesting (not sure how legal but anyway ;)) It's pretty fun, but I doubt there's much use for that... you should be aware of customer competition by other means than stealing somebody's browser history. Nice piece of script though.
     
    Game Producer, Jun 7, 2007 IP