Jan Whitaker wrote: > Essentially the way to avoid is not sign into these services if you can avoid > it. They're still using cookies, but they're relying on data mining more it > seems. > > > http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/06/the-cookie-is-dead-heres-how-facebook-google-and-apple-are-tracking-you-now/
Idiots. Cookies are indeed used for tracking. But in the main, first party cookies are used for session management (since HTTP is a stateless protocol ... need I repeat myself and many others?) And if you have third party cookies enabled in your browser, you are indeed allowing your online web acitivities to be tracked via such cookies and only have yourself to blame. The announcement of the death of cookies is very premature, and I might venture to add that if cookies evetually do die, some other stateful mechanism will have to be invented to replace them. Try turning off cookies and doing some banking, as but one example. cheers rickw _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
