Author Topic: World's Worst Women Drivers! (Read 533 times)

bigsky · « **on:** August 18, 2005, 04:12:05 PM »

Warning: The following link will place many tracking cookies on your computer. Visit at your own risk.

http://www.gophergas.com/funstuff/womendrivers.htm

Nilsen · « **Reply #1 on:** August 18, 2005, 04:26:07 PM »

rofl

CyranoAH · « **Reply #2 on:** August 18, 2005, 04:48:23 PM »

Pity the bronze medal is doctored... pretty obvious if you pay attention to her shadow (plus I had already seen the original pic)

Daniel

Skuzzy · « **Reply #3 on:** August 18, 2005, 04:58:43 PM »

Get out Adaware folks. You are going to need it for that site.

Furball · « **Reply #4 on:** August 18, 2005, 05:01:29 PM »

thank you for doing as i requested last time and putting the warning message at the top of the thread, mr. skuzzy

now, next job is to get me a cold beer, snap snap!

Nilsen · « **Reply #5 on:** August 18, 2005, 05:02:08 PM »

Does not compute skuzzy

what does the site leave on my mac?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #6 on:** August 18, 2005, 05:05:09 PM »

I assume cookies work on an Apple computer just like any other WEB enabled computer. I could be wrong as Apple does usually have its own way of doing things, which may or may not comply to any given public standard.

It means, there are companies watching where you go, what you view, and how many times you view it over the WEB Nilsen. Some people are not bothered by that. Some are.

Furball · « **Reply #7 on:** August 18, 2005, 05:05:28 PM »

hopefully something that will break it so you can get a proper computer

Chairboy · « **Reply #8 on:** August 18, 2005, 05:09:37 PM »

One thing Skuzzy is missing... is that for a cookie to allow a company to track you across the web means that you must visit OTHER websites that use the same 3rd party cookie. If you're visitng them, then you'll have this cookie anyways.

Think about it.

There's nothing magical about a cookie. It's a text file. No code, it doesn't do anything on your computer except get uploaded to the site that set it.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #9 on:** August 18, 2005, 05:13:06 PM »

Quite true. I did not forget, but 'adserv' is pretty proliferate over the WEB, along with 'doubleclick'.

I figure people visiting the above site, will no doubt see similar sites increasing the odds of being tracked.

I err to caution about these things. There is also some other issues with sites who have 10 or 20 trackers. A high number of them also use ActiveX and are sources for spyware and malware programs. Not all mind you, but the odds of getting hit with spyware/malware are increased significantly.

If this site had spyware/malware, I would have removed the link.

Nilsen · « **Reply #10 on:** August 18, 2005, 05:13:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
I assume cookies work on an Apple computer just like any other WEB enabled computer. I could be wrong as Apple does usually have its own way of doing things, which may or may not comply to any given public standard.

It means, there are companies watching where you go, what you view, and how many times you view it over the WEB Nilsen. Some people are not bothered by that. Some are.

Yes... but its only cookies right?

I just scanned through my cookie jar on Safari browser and it doesnt show any new. Safari is set to not accept cookies from other sites than those that i type in manually.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #11 on:** August 18, 2005, 05:14:26 PM »

Sounds like you have reasonable security settings Nilsen. Most people do not. Carry on.

Nilsen · « **Reply #12 on:** August 18, 2005, 05:16:46 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Sounds like you have reasonable security settings Nilsen. Most people do not. Carry on.

Thx..

i knew i was a genious!

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #13 on:** August 19, 2005, 08:43:28 AM »

Just last week I couldn't even spell genious and now I am!

DoctorYO · « **Reply #14 on:** August 19, 2005, 10:14:21 AM »

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i knew i was a genious!

yes your due for promotion like this guy ....

http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=8631

With promotion and troop inspection pictures..

DoctorYo