Posted on 01/25/2009 4:59:41 PM PST by markomalley
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Obama's team may not be so lucky. It got off to a bad start by breaking loads of existing links, and by using WebTrends tracking code without making this clear to users. Also, while everybody loves YouTube, it may not be the best idea to serve WhiteHouse.gov videos from there. YouTube is owned by Google, which was one of Obama's contributors.
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(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
“Obama first president to EXPLOIT the web...”
and the people who use it.
Wasn’t there some issue about the DoD or DARP using tracking cookies?
Government web sites are not supposed to use tracking cookies...but IIRC, it is simply a regulation, not a law...
So Ø doesn't even have to pretend to follow the rules in that case
Does anyone have a clone of whitehouse.gov made before the Obamanation?
So would this be a regular cookie in “My Cookies?” I saw the new site a few days ago, but didn’t go to the blog.
It is one of the most miserable looking websites I’ve ever seen. The previous one was very attractive, IMO.
Web Archive has it up to six months ago (and they don't publish anything prior to six months delay...so in 6 months, they will have it up to Jan 19th)
I just looked there, and it looks more like a site map than the actual web page.
Obama is BIG BROTHER.
Obama’s mad hackers are violating established law. 13 year olds are supposed to be exempted from such practices.
IT should appear sooner than later (like RIGHT NOW, demand it of the Obamastration) in the National Archives website (the Clinton white house site is linked there).
Is it because he’s now a “miserable failure”???
You click on a date, from the index page I linked to, and a copy of the website from that date should appear.
Is this a message to Zero?: “All your bases are belong to us”? ;)
Go to www.tva.gov and see what you get. Yes, there's a cookie.
It doesn't exist. The Obama crowd broke all links to historical GWB material. The GWB Presidential Library site says they will have an archival version up. Don't know when, though.
You can go to my personal FR page for significant passages from President Bush's most important speeches. Others here have saved photos.
Thank you SO very much for that link to the web archive. I can’t tell you how much this will be appreciated by many here on FR.
But I found this:
Before and after
Did you see my cookies question?
Just took this screenshot from web archive:
I only saw a session cookie from whitehouse.gov, but they could easily use a third party cookie that would take more time to locate than I, frankly, want to dedicate. (For example, use a zero pixel webbug that has a cookie attached).
I always use the distrust add-on to my firefox, so I'm not worried too much about it anyway.
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