🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 17 May 1997 21:56:44 +0100, Chris Marriott
<chris@chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <337d7045.608048@news.uwa.edu.au>, Peter Robinson
><ribbo@iinet.net.au> writes
>>Or you could just download Preview Release 4 of Netscape Communicator
>>and it has the option to not accept any cookies at all
>
>... as, indeed, does Internet Explorer, but why would anyone not want to
>accept them? They are extemely useful things!

They are, only you would not want to hand out your details to anyone.
The argument that "if you don't have anything to hide it should not
worry you" is one put up by people who want to use data gathered
covertly (and unless users are aware of them they are) for commercial
gain.  When you do not know what is being gathered and how it is going
to be used, it matters not whether you have anything to hide.  When
you have no control over the data gathered, you have plenty to worry
about.

About the only valid use of cookies I have seen is in internet
shopping sites, where the cookie is not retained once you leave the
site.  It is simply an electronic shopping basket.  Even here, the
cookie is only activated once you decide to make a purchase, and not
when you enter the site.


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Ian A. White, CPEng
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WAI Engineering
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