Re: ONLINE-ADS>> Cookies (the demise thereof)

Mark Dolley (mark_at_zapworks.com)
Fri, 29 Aug 97 15:44:09 -0700

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Mark Dolley,mark_at_zapworks.com wrote on 7/14/97 11:20:

>Rick Bruner,rick_at_bruner.net wrote on 7/12/97 7:58 PM:
>
>>RE: Cookies, Mark Dolley wrote in issue # 110:
>>>Folk are wrong to assume that cookies will endure. Check out the new
>>>Navigator in Communicator or the new Explorer - both of them will allow
>>>you to refuse cookies as a default. What the browser maker giveth, the
>>>browser-maker taketh away (so it looks like Doubleclick got that new
>>>round of funding just in the nick of time).
>>
>>This is absolutely wrong.
><snip>

I wrote at the time:

>given that changing one's preferences is markedly easier
>than downloading special software and setting it up, we should be ready
>for ever-growing numbers of people refusing cookies.

Disabling cookies in browsers and removing them from hard drives just
made it to the cover of Time magazine, as part of their report on the
erosion of privacy.

http://www.pathfinder.com/time/reports/privacy/cover1.html

And for the part on cookies:

http://www.pathfinder.com/time/reports/privacy/cover6.html

Ya heard it first on O-A,

Mark Dolley, zapworks! | vox:(+1) 415 551 1800
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