Re: Involuntary Information Gathering

> > I would like a law that requires the site owner to offer
> > those who "land" on his site the oppertunity of blocking the cookie
> > function.
>
> Netscape offers the ability to block them completely.

I use this daily; for private or academic sites that don't seem to have advertising, I say yes; others, no.

The interesting thing is that recently I found one site (excellent BTW) that has apparently chosen to tell me that blocking their cookie is illegal!

The main page is

        http://i-cias.com

and the page where they seem to make the statement is

        http://i-cias.com/c.htm

where under "@illegal" they include the "Use of browsers, or browser plug-ins, that remove ads, or have links to advertisers removed or blocked"

And if that's not about cookies, it seems even more astonishing.

Bill Thayer
<petworth[_at_]suba.com> Received on Mon May 12 1997 - 11:52:51 GMT