From: Mark Fallon (mfallon at domain ie.oracle.com)
Date: Tue 09 May 2000 - 19:53:57 IST
> 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.
Hi,
Don't forget that DoubleClick have an opt-out, if you go to their
site. It was mentioned in a slashdot article and there is even
a link provided on the daily static page on userfriendly.
I try to avoid all user profiling where possible, especially when
it is being done by companies who operate under a different set
of laws about data protection and ownership.
Because I need cookies for some sites i go with the netscape option
of accepting cookies from the same site.
Regards,
Mark
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