On Nov 16, 2014, at 1:21 PM, R. D. Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, I’ll try that the next time it happens. > > But why the appearance of cookies from places I have not visited?
Your browser visits lots of places you don’t. Most of those ads you see littering the pages you’re looking at are served via links to third-party ad agencies, not the site you think you’re visiting. They pay the main site to serve up their ads, and they can also install cookies while they’re at it. If you want a real eye-opener, install the Ghostery extension in Safari. It will show you many of the third-party addresses that install tracking thingies as you go about your business. Some pages have dozens of third-party page embeds. This kind of thing is the price we pay for free Internet content.
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