Cookies usage and you

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Cookies usage and you

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Nice little amendment. And very topical. Well done.
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Are cookies bad guys ? I never clear them ... unless, of course, they are covered in chocolate and on a plate next to a glass of milk!
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Good point Nim
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Cookies can be bad guys, they can relay everything you do back to their source, clever ones can open the door to all sorts of malware.
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It's not that cookies are neccessarily bad , this board wouldn't work properly without them but ours are totaly innocent being session cookies,
while some dubious sites might use the invasive tracking type improperly .
The reason for the topic is that a new Euro wide law is being proposed where the user has the right to reject any cookie .
If it goes ahead as written then we'll all have to shut down in a years time , as the software automatically assigns two cookies to a guest
on entering the site which as the proposed law would stand will be illegal .
As a member , everyone has agreed to allow them by registering but a guest hasn't.
It looks as if L_J has knowledge of the reason for adding the topic , with his response.
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I do.


Last bumped by salem on May 26th, 2012, 8:42 pm.
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