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http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/adm\/player-type.php?playerid=9&action=listall<\/a><\/p>\n What it does:<\/p>\n Loads up about 40k of Javascript and 40k of graphics (a Flash app would download all of that in one file)<\/p>\n If you don’t have a cookie for the station, it pesters you to register<\/p>\n Says “Hey, I have a live one!” to addthis, a site that is an aggregator for social networking sites – by putting an addthis link on a web page, you’re basically announcing to the whole world who just loaded your player<\/p>\n Cue the flood of Facebook Content Delivery\u00a0Network\u00a0tracking crap! – it’s very complicated and will need further study – but it looks like Facebook is using css stylesheets to pass information back and forth to ad networks – kind of like Flash cookies, but even more difficult to block.\u00a0\u00a0 The browser can’t run without style sheets and style sheets were not intended to pass data secretly between domains.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n This player then does something truly bizarre.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For each 67 kb of the audio stream, it issues another http:\/\/ request over port 443 –\u00a0but not using https:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is probably to bypass firewall, since it looks somewhat like\u00a0just routine web traffic.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One other quirk is\u00a0after\u00a0you click the\u00a0Stop icon on the player to stop the stream,\u00a0that doesn’t stop the download of the stream…. the 67kb at a time downloads keep happening forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" List of examples: http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/adm\/player-type.php?playerid=9&action=listall What it does: Loads up about 40k of Javascript and 40k of graphics (a Flash app would download all of that in one file) If you don’t have a cookie for the station, it pesters you … Continue reading