[CoLoCo] scary script

[Andrew]

I just discovered something that makes me wonder.  First, of all I
discovered this cool radio website called 'pandora.com'

And second I installed the Firefox add-on called 'no script', which is
supposed to help improve web security. But, I must admit that I had it
disabled for awhile.

anyway, I decided to enable it again today, and decided to investigate
one of the scripts on the Pandora website. which pointed to
'imrworldwide.com'


So, I decided to see what the 'imrworldwide' site does, and it makes
me wonder if they were spying on me before i blocked the script.






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