Muffins?........................
Until, of course, it doesn’t. Anyone remember Google’s old slogan, “Don’t Be Evil”?
Apart from their nefarious reputation for being exploited, cookies used to benefit your web experience too. Your browser can hold your ‘session’ on any website and keep you logged in, but cookies let you stay logged in between sessions. So for a site that you liked to stay logged in on, cookies could help you from the annoyance of having to log in every time you returned.
I have long since broke my lazy habit of staying logged into websites and have more recently adopted browser settings that deny cookies and delete them after closing.
This just means they have something better now.
Sort of like those useless START treaties. Each one came into effect limiting older technology when the next generation of technology was fully tested.
More Cowbell!
The Combine?
#halflife2 game reference check ✔
Since most of the ads that follow me around are promoting things I’ve already bought, I find such advertising to be a colossal waste of energy and resources. Like I’m going to buy a second refrigerator or do another home refinance a week later. Lol. They are a long way from Minority Report.
Hate it when clicking on a story launches a video presentation that shouts content at you while you try to read.
A script blocker will handle that. But might interfere with some functions that you use.
Cookies are not this horrible sinister thing.
When you go to a website it stores information about your visit so that the next time you come you can jump right in.
This is not that big of a deal now, but was a huge deal in the beginning when bandwidth was slow.
You can also choose not to accept them.
“They’re the snippets of code...”
They are in fact text files, not code. All the code executes on the server side.
BROWNIES !
For years there were also the little known “Flash cookies”, not stored with other cookies, that would restore certain cookies in your cookie directory if you deleted them. But now that Flash is going the way, they are probably right out as well.
My guess is that they will at first clog your registry with what amounts to be cookies. Eventually it will end up as virtual IDs/cookies that you cannot access and track to people, not websites. So as soon as they spot “you” by your online activity, even on a new computer, all your cookie information is restored.
FR has zero trackers. But some websites have in excess of 30 trackers. All of which will be blocked by Ghostery.
I’m not sure why anyone fails to use VPN to begin with.
Advertising never really worked on me. Only when I’ve been informed of an event or something I’ve actually been waiting for do I respond the way the product manufacturer, entertainment venue or service provider would want me to. I see how they assume now, that there are more suckers born every minute than there used to be, and that is not a good thing.
I expect them to use a database of IP addresses and activity.
China could likely provide it now.
The problem isn’t cookies, it’s that Google has figured out an alternative and doesn’t want to share.
Watch me kids ! Freerepublic. Then. The patriots .win. Then the great awakening. Hopefully you LEARN SOMETHING with all yer SPYING