Guess again. No, I'm not kidding. As I said - look through your cookies and you'll be surprised at what you'll find.
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Victor Grazi wrote: > Well, they wouldn't know it was you! > > On 6/15/07, Craig Froehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Man, if someone found out about me buying habits, I'd be in hot >> water...that nun fetish doesn't sit well with the missus. ;-) >> >> >> On 6/15/07, Victor Grazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I don't really care who knows my buying habits. >>> If they don't know my address or who I am, it doesn't much effect me >>> >>> >>> On 6/15/07, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have no problem with sites that use cookies to discover my habits. >>>>> I love that Amazon always knows who I am and features listings on my >>>> home page that are targeted to me. >>>>> I wish every site did that. >>>>> >>>>> As long as cookies cant trawl my hard drive to see who I am and what >> my >>>>> credit card number is, I am fine with it. >>>> >>>> A cookie is just a small text file so it can't do anything of the >> sort. >>>> However, all it takes is a small browser bug, buffer overflow, etc to >>>> allow an unscrupulous site to scavenge all of your cookies and track >> your >>>> browsing habits in excruciating detail. Look through your cookies >> some >>>> time and you'll be surprised what you find - sites you've never even >> heard >>>> of that drop tracking cookies for others to load. Browsers other than >> IE >>>> tend to be better there but there's really no harm in deleting cookies >>>> periodically if you don't mind having to tell sites who you are again. >>>> >>>> -Jason, who also knows far too much about how cookies can be (ab)used. >>>> >>>> ----- >>>> --- There are no absolute statements. I'm very probably wrong. --- >>>> "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its >>>> limits." >>>> - Albert Einstein >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.GearBits.com -- Tech. Culture. Ideas. Opinions. >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > -- -Jason ----- --- There are no absolute statements. I'm very probably wrong. --- "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
