From: Niall (niall at domain magicgoeshere.com)
Date: Tue 09 May 2000 - 19:34:45 IST
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 02:56:15PM +0100, adam beecher wrote:
> > > What annoys me most is that you have to have cookies switched on. grrrr.
> >
> > Your preferred solution to this is ... ?
> >
>
> I'd be curious about that one too - I could never understand the general
> misinformation about cookies propogated on the Internet. Cookie Central
> <http://www.cookiecentral.com> for example - apparently an "authority" on
> cookies - paints them in a very bad light, and seems to try to push users to
> block them as fast as possible. They're very sparse on detail of the advantages
> of cookies, which are numerous. They can save a hell of a lot of bother and fuss
> for both the user and the developer for a start.
The reason sensible people try to avoid cookies as far as possible is that
very many unscrupulous organisations and web sites (DoubleClick being the
best know example) use cookies to gather information on people in order to
market to them as effectively as possible. Many people don't object to this
- many others, of which I and Noel Carrol are examples, object strongly to
this and so we disable cookies, which is a problem which we want to use
sites which use cookies, even for non-nefarious reasons. One technical
solution to this is to use a cookie blocking proxy (I use Internet
Junkbuster) and not to proxy the required sites. In this way, you leave
cookies on in your browser, but the proxy keeps them away (oh! - IJB blocks
ads too :-) )
Regards,
Niall
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