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You actually did a good thing. I remember cookie stealing was such a pain in the ass on Hi5 (I wasn't as active on MySpace). People would suddenly lose their accounts without falling for phishing emails or the usual stuff, then the attackers would change the email and password, since it was that easy. 

It was easier to embed on a YouTube video because you were most likely to hover over it, specially if you had set it to autoplay. 

I remember using IP trackers on my MySpace page. I was being stalked online by my exhusband’s crazy wife (she’s now his ex) at the time. Every time I’d blocked her she’d make a new profile just to see what I was doing, saying, who my friends were, steal my kids pictures. Oh it was a mess. So I knew her IP address and I blocked every account she made. 

wow, didn't realize it went that far. i ran a small website and forum at the time, and hosted one of the images on my profile on my own server. it was cool to see where all of my views were coming from in my server log. sometimes i'd match them with the initiating user just for a little personal challenge. but never anything more than that, and I never talked about it. when i arrived at spacehey, i noticed all img src's were routed through their server, so i never bothered. when i arrived here i wondered if it was a thing, but didn't bother with it. always wondered how others would use it to exploit but didn't do any research on the matter.