Re: ONLINE-ADS>> Whose hand is that in the cookie jar?

Imran Ali Rashid (arfan_at_khi.compol.com)
Wed, 16 Apr 1997 09:22:14 +0500

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Bob Stewart wrote:

> The only situation where there seems to be anything close to a real
privacy
> issue is when a site requires user registration and uses cookies to track
> users' movements within the site. But it's hard to see how someone
willing
> to fill out a registration could reasonably expect their Web usage to
> remain anonymous, and its pretty simple to avoid this tracking--just
don't
> register.

Here I disagree. I have noticed that it is not necessary for you to
register for your site specific usage to be tracked. What does happen in
some search engines is that they give you a cookie the first time you visit
any of their pages. After this all they have to do is to refer to the
cookie and they will know where on their site you have been. I doubt any
such material is stored but if anybody wanted they could keep a record of
anything you do on their site through just one cookie. A good utility for
tracking the cookies you receive is at ZDNet.

Imran Ali Rashid.

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