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The spin people are putting on this is just unbelievably sensation-mongering. ReadWriteWeb of all places is calling them on it - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/unbelievable_wsj_calls_....

It's so disappointing to see Hacker News be a part of this mob mentality.

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Sorry, but RWW's subtext that this is nothing more than regular referral URLs is disingenuous.

Providing advertisers with personally identifiable information, particularly information that can be used to both gather additional data and target you later, is a pretty significant privacy failing.

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