If you open paypal.112.2o7.net directly you are greeted with a page that is more or less blank:
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Omniture is a service that analyses traffic and it seems that PayPal is one of their customers. This has been confirmed by a press release on the Omniture website which states that PayPal is indeed one of the company's customers.
Omniture tracks our movements by dropping an identifying cookie. This identifying cookie is logging who the payment is to. So now a third party knows who is requesting money and the IP addresses of people who may be making payments. With this information, and an identifying tracking cookie the third party can start to track all your potential PayPal payments. Omniture uses session cookies to track web visitor behavior and to allow customers to immediately save the username and password as well as personal settings on specific pages. This allows Omniture to process your saved login information.
I did a search for paypal data mining and got this: Mining Data at PayPal to Guide Business Strategy
and there's more: What customer information is collected at checkout?
Collecting FEC required donor data with Paypal
This is all public information that I was able to find using google. Needless to say, I'm not happy about this at all. Paypal, I love you, but you're invading my privacy and being sneaky about it, and you're probably selling my info too.
