Carzone collecting data on users

John_flood73

What is going on with carzone. not only have they introduced
lots of spammy content on their homepage (the only purpose of which seems to be to spam the search engines) but according to their source code they are now using the infamous websidestory to collect data on users. below is a snippet from home page

<!--WEBSIDESTORY CODE HBX1.0 (Universal)-->
<!--COPYRIGHT 1997-2005 WEBSIDESTORY,INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. U.S.PATENT No. 6,393,479B1. MORE INFO:http://websidestory.com/privacy--&gt;

<script language="javascript">
var _hbEC=0,_hbE=new Array;function _hbEvent(a,b){b=_hbE[_hbEC++]=new Object();b._N=a;b._C=0;return b;}
var hbx=_hbEvent("pv");hbx.vpc="HBX0100u";hbx.gn="ehg-autotrader.hitbox.com";
//BEGIN EDITABLE SECTION
//CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
hbx.acct="DM560209L8WW";//ACCOUNT NUMBER(S)
// we need to evaluate a page title (differences between Carzone & Sausage)


hbx.pn="Welcome to Carzone";//PAGE NAME(S)
hbx.mlc="CONTENT+CATEGORY";//MULTI-LEVEL CONTENT CATEGORY
hbx.pndef="title";//DEFAULT PAGE NAME
hbx.ctdef="full";//DEFAULT CONTENT CATEGORY
//OPTIONAL PAGE VARIABLES
//ACTION SETTINGS
hbx.fv="";//FORM VALIDATION MINIMUM ELEMENTS OR SUBMIT FUNCTION NAME
hbx.lt="auto";//LINK TRACKING
hbx.dlf="n";//DOWNLOAD FILTER
hbx.dft="n";//DOWNLOAD FILE NAMING
hbx.elf="n";//EXIT LINK FILTER
//SEGMENTS AND FUNNELS
hbx.seg="";//VISITOR SEGMENTATION
hbx.fnl="";//FUNNELS
//CAMPAIGNS
hbx.cmp="";//CAMPAIGN ID
hbx.cmpn="";//CAMPAIGN ID IN QUERY
hbx.dcmp="";//DYNAMIC CAMPAIGN ID
hbx.dcmpn="";//DYNAMIC CAMPAIGN ID IN QUERY
hbx.dcmpe="";//DYNAMIC CAMPAIGN EXPIRATION
hbx.dcmpre="";//DYNAMIC CAMPAIGN RESPONSE EXPIRATION
hbx.hra="";//RESPONSE ATTRIBUTE
hbx.hqsr="";//RESPONSE ATTRIBUTE IN REFERRAL QUERY
hbx.hqsp="";//RESPONSE ATTRIBUTE IN QUERY
hbx.hlt="";//LEAD TRACKING
hbx.hla="";//LEAD ATTRIBUTE
hbx.gp="";//CAMPAIGN GOAL
hbx.gpn="";//CAMPAIGN GOAL IN QUERY
hbx.hcn="";//CONVERSION ATTRIBUTE
hbx.hcv="";//CONVERSION VALUE
hbx.cp="null";//LEGACY CAMPAIGN
hbx.cpd="";//CAMPAIGN DOMAIN
//CUSTOM VARIABLES
hbx.ci="";//CUSTOMER ID

hbx.hc3="";//CUSTOM 3
hbx.hc4="";//CUSTOM 4
hbx.hrf="";//CUSTOM REFERRER
hbx.pec="";//ERROR CODES
//INSERT CUSTOM EVENTS
//END EDITABLE SECTION
//REQUIRED SECTION. CHANGE "YOURSERVER" TO VALID LOCATION ON YOUR WEB SERVER (HTTPS IF FROM SECURE SERVER)
</script><script language="javascript1.1" defer src="<A href="http://www.carzone.ie/hbx.js"></script">http://www.carzone.ie/hbx.js"></script&gt;
<!--END WEBSIDESTORY CODE-->

some more info on websidestory here:
www.geocities.com/Area51/3543/hitbox.htm

Since Autotrader took them over it has been all down hill!!

Rory123

One of my mates dad's started Carzone (sounds like it could be a lie... but its true). He sold it recently, I think to people who have something to do with the auto trader, but I could be wrong about that. He's spent the last year or so handing over the reigns to them and now I think he's completely finished with them. It's probably the new owners just changing things about (it seems for bad)... hope it doesn't change too much as its my online bible!

Rory123

only saw this:

Since Autotrader took them over it has been all down hill!!

after I posted that last one! Sorry for repeating and frankly being a bore!