I know that there is an option for notifying the user, but most people are lazy/ignorant and will turn the notification off.
There's only that option because they decide to allow it. They could change that at any time - it's not a technological requirement.
Although, that'd be a good one-off patent. I'll patent the way of performing this POST redirection where the user is not notified. Thus everyone who wants to use this technology has to not notify the user, thus they can't do it in a user-honoring manner without licensing. (And then we funnel those monies into reforming the patent office...)
Everyone seems in an uproar about this latest Amazon patent. Why? Because they don't realize what this could mean.
All unemployed/downsized programmers should go work at Amazon creating new patents. Think of what trivial variations you could describe! A patent for the submission of aggregate data from two forms, or one for the process of submitting form data to two websites and sticking the results in frames!
There's money to be made in those patent hills, and you don't even need to invent anything to do it!
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There's only that option because they decide to allow it. They could change that at any time - it's not a technological requirement.
Although, that'd be a good one-off patent. I'll patent the way of performing this POST redirection where the user is not notified. Thus everyone who wants to use this technology has to not notify the user, thus they can't do it in a user-honoring manner without licensing. (And then we funnel those monies into reforming the patent office...)
Alexa - one more place for me to avoid.
All unemployed/downsized programmers should go work at Amazon creating new patents. Think of what trivial variations you could describe! A patent for the submission of aggregate data from two forms, or one for the process of submitting form data to two websites and sticking the results in frames!
There's money to be made in those patent hills, and you don't even need to invent anything to do it!