drhowarddrfine said:Meh. They just want to know what you're interested in so they can target their ads. Don't worry about it. No big deal.
FWIW: Ghostery is available for Opera tooUNIXgod said:All I have to say is holy shit. It's almost sick on how we are being tracked click to click.
throAU said:Anyone know Ghostery's business model?
Granted, the danger of cookies is highly overestimated. But on the other hand, out of a 100 requested cookies only 5 are useful. And that's a highly optimistic estimate. Some cookies are perfectly legitimate but most of them are only used by advertising companies to present one with ads (which I block anyway) that are supposedly(*) tailored towards one's interests.drhowarddrfine said:Cookies will never hurt you. You only miss out by leaving them off. They can't execute anything.
drhowarddrfine said:Cookies will never hurt you. You only miss out by leaving them off. They can't execute anything. Just leave them on. I do. Always have.
throAU said:Actually, the cookies from certain sites CAN be used to track you on-line.
e.g.:
Advertiser (e.g., doubleclick, google) sets a cookie. You visit another site, that uses the same ad provider. Ad is served, ad server checks it's ad network cookie, checks referrer URL = advertiser knows you (or rather, the browser with your unique cookie) browsed site X.
An ad network as pervasive as the above two will track almost all sites you browse and report the hit pages back to the ad provider.
throAU said:It doesn't mean we need to make it easier for them