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Is Microsoft right or wrong again? (Read 564 times)

Oct 4^th, 2012 at 7:05pm

Steve M Offline
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http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/doh-even-microsofts-own-lobbyists-171340790.htm...

Cookies allow you quick access to websites with out having to sign in every time you click on. Am I right or wrong? There are cookies, there are tracking cookies and there are spy cookies. If you read this article what do you come away with, or do you think MS is herding us to the barn again?

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Reply #1 - Oct 4^th, 2012 at 9:35pm

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It's a great idea, long overdue. Corporate marketing departments are scared to death of people being able to choose privacy. George Orwell had it wrong. Big Brother doesn't wear a government uniform. He's in a business suit. Intrusive, unaccountable, and inappropriate behavior by corporations is a far bigger concern for me. If you think it's okay for big pharma to be showing Viagra and Cialis ads on TV when kids are watching, or their "affiliates" displaying offensive ads all over the web, then you can choose to reveal all your Internet activities to the corporations. I'll choose not to do it, with DO NOT TRACK in IE10.

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
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Reply #2 - Oct 5^th, 2012 at 4:23pm

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My take on this is that we can already choose to disallow cookies, so what is so innovative about this? Problem is you end up signing in every time you click into a site that you are a member in because many sites require cookies enabled.
The innovative part would be if they replace cookies and keep you signed in. Every time I delete my cookies I end up getting my rollodex out to sign back in to websites. I know we can block certain cookies from deleting, but the best cleanup, I think, is to just dump them all.

As a side note I agree with you Dave. 'They' are jamming stuff down our throats that we don't want. Tongue

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