Usability/Usability humor
Wednesday, November 27, 2002[11:35:05 AM]
Tried to escape from Intuit's spam.
Ha ha.
First evil thing is the doubleclick web bug image -- anon.doubleclick.speedera.net. Yeah, maybe doubleclick would never invade my privacy. Second evil thing, it didn't actually let me unsubscribe to their spam list. Instead, it said "Invalid session id". I looked in the source of the page, and in an HTML comment it said "Thank you for deciding to let us keep you informed about our products, services and value-added offers." Ha ha.
I might have succeeded. Turns out they were trying to set a cookie. When I turned cookies on -- even though I refused the cookie manually -- I got "E-mail Preference Confirmed". If it really worked, the only weird thing is that they promise to send me an email to tell me they won't send me any more emails.
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