Some browser observations (2)

[Aaron Grewell]

One nice new option in Moz is to set the cookies to expire after the
current session.  Cookies are cheerfully accepted by the browser, but
once you close it they go away.  That might not be very helpful with
nytimes though.  You would be forever logging in.  Personally, I don't
go to sites that require that sort of nonsense.

On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 16:07, Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> 
> Cookies can be set for any domain by any domain, not just the one visited at 
> the time. It's common to set a cookie for a pop-up or banner goto so that if 
> you click it's easy to see who referred the click. Also much more info can be 
> transfered via a cookie than a formatted url. Many sites fail to function 
> properly without cookies as they are the main way to capture your trail and 
> tag you with a unique ID.
> 
> On Sunday 28 April 2002 21:11, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > Hmm....
> >
> > I am not at home right now and can't give you the names, but there were at
> > least two places hitting me with cookies, besides the NYTimes. I wonder if
> > my ISP (Comcast) is doing this to me? Or, maybe you are taking those
> > cookies and don't know it?
> >
> > Why not try changing your cookie policy to ask permission for all
> > cookies, go to the NYTimes web site, and see if you don't get asked to
> > allow some cookies from non NYTimes sites?
> >
> > Speaking of cookies, would it be bad to just use your firewall to block
> > cookies from all those obnoxious advertising places, or would that make the
> > browser hang up while the web page tries to download them on you?
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:39:07PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > Joel Hammer wrote:
> > > > Second item worth bringing up. I was running konqueror (redhat 7.1) as
> > > > a remote application on my wife's new linux box (an old retread win98
> > > > box), and all was well. I was reading the NYTimes, which is free but
> > > > full of popup ads. I finally started rejecting cookies from those popup
> > > > people. Suddenly, I started getting plugin errors galore from
> > > > konqueror, which made it almost unusable. I restarted konqueror, with
> > > > the same problem. So, I reset the cookie policy to accept those cookies
> > > > again, and the problem went away.
> > > >
> > > > This seems like a bug in konqueror or a clever way for the NYTimes to
> > > > avoid parasites like me. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
> > >
> > > I read the NYT website all the time with Mozilla.  My cookie preference
> > > is set to
> > > allow only cookies originating from the site, and i don't have any
> > > problems.
> > >
> > > I've only encountered a 1-time popup at the NYT site, and it occurs on
> > > the front
> > > page.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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