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Tue, 15/05/2007 - 10:11 — tony

So I recently found out that there is a ridiculously easy way to circumvent MySpace's privacy "protections". You know how normally folks can mark their profile as "private", or allow viewing their profile, but not their friends or comments? Well, apparently MySpace is pretty lazy about it, and just uses some CSS tricks to hide parts of the page. If you use Firefox, all you have to do is view the page without interpreting the CSS, which can be done by clicking View > Page Style > No Style in the menu, then visit the "hidden" page you want to see. When you're done, you can just turn the formatting back on.

Note: You can also accomplish the same thing by using a browser that doesn't interpret CSS ever, such as links2.

Yet another reason I'm not missing the MySpace account, eh?

[Edit: It appears the hole has been patched now, actually - perhaps from a spike of attention? Let us know if you discover any new open ones!]


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Thu, 26/07/2007 - 15:31 — myspace layout stealer (not verified)

myspace layout

myspace layout stealer...

then again, the opposite could be true...

Fri, 06/07/2007 - 17:05 — Myspace Hide View All Edit All Comments (not verified)

Myspace Hide View All Edit

Myspace Hide View All Edit All Comments...

I don't agree with you in 100%, but you covered some good points regarding this topic...

Tue, 15/05/2007 - 14:22 — choff (not verified)

lies!

lies!

Tue, 15/05/2007 - 12:14 — Hopeless Blog » Blog Archive » links 15 apr. 2007 (not verified)

[...] MySpace - und warum

[...] MySpace - und warum mann es nicht verwenden will (english) [...]

Tue, 15/05/2007 - 11:45 — no one in particular (not verified)

Yeah, you were probably

Yeah, you were probably looking at someone's page who intentionally used CSS to obscure those parts. But if your page is actually marked private, myspace does the correct thing. You also can't use URL tricks to access their pictures.

Tue, 15/05/2007 - 11:10 — Lycus (not verified)

Lies!

Lies!

Tue, 15/05/2007 - 11:06 — sparklehistory (not verified)

Darn, didn't work for me

Darn, didn't work for me either.

Tue, 15/05/2007 - 11:02 — Robert (not verified)

Yeah its not working here

Yeah its not working here either, odd.

Tue, 15/05/2007 - 11:00 — Toma (not verified)

Same :( Still cant view hot

Same :(

Still cant view hot girls webpages that are way out of my league. Oh well.

Tue, 15/05/2007 - 10:40 — Bill (not verified)

I just tried this on a page

I just tried this on a page that has this message on it. "This profile is set to private. This user must add you as a friend to see his/her profile" I have the Page Style set to No Sytle. It doesn't work as you say..