[CoLoCo] scary script

[TJ Heaney]

That actually explains why pandora is only available in the US.....


TJ

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Andrew <keen101 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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