StraightDope violating readers' privacy?

Factual Questions
1

A ZdNet story today (12/8/10) at http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/youporn-sued-for-browser-history-sniffing-wired-named-in-tracking-scandal/15127?tag=nl.e539
is about websites that are sniffing their readers’ browser history exposed by a UCSD study… and right on the list is Straightdope.com (page 9 of the study).

Straightdope.com is apparently using javascript tools from interclick.com to read your history and then transmit it back to its server for analysis.

What’s going on here Cecil?

2

There is an ATMB thread about this here. In short, it was an advertising network and they stopped. They’re very sorry and they won’t do it again, of course.

3

Since their is an earlier thread in ATMB and the question is about the SDMB, I’ll close this one.

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