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rowan · 11-22-2015, 08:39 PM

I'm wondering exactly how this video is "recorded". Does the plugin phone home to tell vantagepoint that user has loaded URL X, and their mouse pointer is now at co-ordinates 456,1000, and vantagepoint reproduces the page and mouse activity to record? Or is it really capturing the screen of the user?

Can the date this video was produced be independently verified? How can it be proven that the video was recorded at the time of the order, and not simply synthesized at a later date?

BTW, their geoip is way off. Facebook usually thinks I'm in a suburb about 15km away, which is pretty good; vantagepoint is off by about 1200km. One thousand two hundred kilometres. I think they've basically just used the geographical centre of Australia, which is probably more useless than returning "I don't know"

I use a slightly falsified user-agent so it thinks I'm using Firefox on W7 (I'm on W8.1 with a browser forked from FF). So it looks like the magical fingerprint is based solely on the IP address and user-agent.

Looks like an interesting concept, but technically it seems to have flaws, and the thought of "recording" your customers sounds a bit creepy.

11-22-2015, 08:39 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	I'm wondering exactly how this video is "recorded". Does the plugin phone home to tell vantagepoint that user has loaded URL X, and their mouse pointer is now at co-ordinates 456,1000, and vantagepoint reproduces the page and mouse activity to record? Or is it really capturing the screen of the user? Can the date this video was produced be independently verified? How can it be proven that the video was recorded at the time of the order, and not simply synthesized at a later date? BTW, their geoip is way off. Facebook usually thinks I'm in a suburb about 15km away, which is pretty good; vantagepoint is off by about 1200km. One thousand two hundred kilometres. I think they've basically just used the geographical centre of Australia, which is probably more useless than returning "I don't know" I use a slightly falsified user-agent so it thinks I'm using Firefox on W7 (I'm on W8.1 with a browser forked from FF). So it looks like the magical fingerprint is based solely on the IP address and user-agent. Looks like an interesting concept, but technically it seems to have flaws, and the thought of "recording" your customers sounds a bit creepy.