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Undeleting Cookies Or Is It Just Spyware? (4.00 / 3) (#74)
by br3n on Wed Apr 6th, 2005 at 09:55:08 EST
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20050405/1711209_F.shtml
Contributed by Mike
Cookie technology is often misunderstood. It is quite useful, and it's unlikely to be misused widely. In fact, even the various tracking cookies that some spyware programs highlight aren't really that bad. Still, if you want to delete your cookies, you should certainly be allowed to do so. However, just as reports are coming out claiming that an awful lot of people are deleting their cookies regularly, some company has come up with a technology that secretly restores deleted cookies on the theory that users are too stupid to understand cookies and that they probably didn't want them deleted in the first place.

also has a link to this article here
http://www.internetweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml%3Bjsessionid=SFR2KYWZU2YOOQSNDBGCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=160500749
Opinion: The Dumbest Technology Of 2005
By Mitch Wagner
It's early to be talking about the dumbest technology of 2005. But United Virtualities has set a mark that it's going to be tough for other vendors to beat.
br3n

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