[martinko]

Hm, now the link in the article (www.discoverpresentsonline.com/david-brain/report.html) just redirects to the real discover magazine.

[shawabawa3]

In the article it mentions it only lets you see the article if you have the tracking cookie from the ad

[thaumaturgy]

That part made me scratch my head a bit, because they shouldn't have access to Yahoo cookies.

I think the article meant the http referrer needed to be yahoo?

[coldpie]

Possibly. Can you set cookies over JavaScript? Ad networks allow ad providers to inject arbitrary JavaScript into their clients' websites.

[thaumaturgy]

You can set and read cookies using Javascript, but due to same-origin policies that are present in all modern browsers, it shouldn't be possible for a non-Yahoo domains to read cookies set by Yahoo.

There might be some exception that I'm not aware of, but that would seem like a pretty serious browser security issue.

[slipstream-]

I curl -i'd it. It gives a 302 redirect but also serves the content. As in, someone did header("Location: ..."); but forgot to also die();.

[kogepathic]

If anyone wants to read the page, here's a copy of the page content (images are linked with relative path and thus broken): http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=7yEUirQf