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Originally posted by golemina
You don't REALLY believe in this so-called 'benign' nature of these cookies do you?
Do you have concrete information to the contrary?
Originally posted by golemina
You're kidding right?
Absolutely not. I'm always exceptionally serious about uncovering the truth.
I've done the research to support my statements. What have you done to support yours?
Originally posted by mister.old.school
Originally posted by Nezuji
but it's clear to me that the bill would actually target advertising networks that use cross-site cookies to track users.
There is no such thing as "cross site cookies."
The term "tracking cookie" has been created by the media to scare you. All cookies "track", calling such things a "tracking cookie" is like calling a chair a "seat chair".
From what I had already known, combined with my research on this thread, there appears to be little to fear, and no provable harm to have come from behavior-targeted banner advertising. Each "third party" advertising network I researched makes it very clear they care nothing for your name and personal details, they simply attempt to learn about what you like -- "you" being a disassociated numeric identifier -- to give you more relevant advertisements.
The cookie, in this case, contains that disassociated numeric identifier that relates to a series of collected data on the servers of the advertising networks. There's nothing personal.
50. The words are then ranked by frequency, and words that only occur once are discarded. Finally the top 10 in the frequency list (assuming that there are 10) will be retained as a representation of what the web page was all about. 51. All of this work is done by a machine based at the ISP called a \Proler". This machine of necessity sees all of the web sessions, and it is aware of the IP address of the user whose session is being analysed. It also picks out the UID which uniquely identies the user from the cookie that accompanied the web page request.