Re: Involuntary Information Gathering

From: <ArborLaw[_at_]aol.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 13:56:36 -0400 (EDT)

On 5/14/97, Jamie Powers <jamie[_at_]srgpe.com> wrote:
>
> Self help works - you can simply deny the request to set the
> cookie - but I was wondering if anyone has any knowledge if we
> cookie blockers are getting any differing service than those
> requesting browsers that allow cookie files to be set? As a site
> owner, bias might be to first serve those who allow the cookie
> demographics and other tidbits to be collected.

As an aside, if relying on the browser and manually denying the cookie (and not using a third-party solution that will do this automatically), a net user may have to deny a cookie request up to 30 times before a single page will load. I don't offhand know if this is code that requests 30 times to set a single cookie, or a cookie request set for each graphical element of the HTML page. But it effectively operates to discourage people without lots of time on their hands from visiting a page unless they accept the cookie.

Carol Shepherd
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