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		rhizome on Sept 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Defends Getting Data From Logged-Out User... Hotlink an image? That's now how the Like button works. It's more like linking to an IFRAME with its own javascript. Slight diff.

pork on Sept 27, 2011 | [–]

Hardly. Hotlinking an image can send an FB cookie too, and that's all you need.

polemic on Sept 28, 2011 | [–]

The JS can't break out of it's frame, so that doesn't really matter. The cookie comes with the request (image, html or JS, it doesn't matter).

rhizome on Sept 28, 2011 | [–]

Gotcha. Interesting.

Thanks to both of you!

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