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| Thread ID: 74110 | 2006-11-12 01:52:00 | Are cookies really all that bad? | Strommer (42) | Press F1 |
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| 498283 | 2006-11-12 01:52:00 | So what if a cookie reveals that I have Firefox, WinXP and live in NZ? Do they show anything else that people may not want to be known? Don't cookies allow, for example, NZ-based adverts or other adverts that relate to the general topic of sites that are viewed? I only surf to news, tech sites, YouTube, and the odd Google search. When I run Spybot, these 3 cookies appear: Advertising.com, AveA,Inc, and MediaPlex. The Details section of Spybot does not show anything of great concern. Are some cookies nasty? |
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| 498284 | 2006-11-12 02:28:00 | The only cookies that have a usefulness, as far as I can see, are those for giving customisation to your favourite sites, like saving you having to log in each time the site is visited. As a matter of principle I resent unwanted, unasked for junk being put on my computer, though some sites insist you have them enabled if you want to go there. Generally though, apart from exceptions, I have Firefox set to wipe them when FF is closed. |
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