mysterious html comment in every Amazon.com's webpage
Elliott Back noticed
that there's a comment in the footer of every Amazon.com web page, that
changes on page reload. So what, you might say? Well, we geeks like
mysteries, I speculate a lot; and Amazon.com is leading edge in
ecommerce. There's always a reason for everything, and it sure isn't
pagerank; like this poor bastard tried. Therefore let's start betting:
- it's another fancy google-like job opening contest
- a new way to digital sign or fingerprint a webpage
- some internal stuff, and we don't care. it gets boring; click the back button now!
- if it's a fingerprint, it could be read by alexa toolbar, and they match alexa's user patterns towards their own click streams
- since they force the page refresh on every load, they clearly don't play with the HTTP header code 304.
- it's simply a HTML comment; no fuss about it
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