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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: bigsky on August 18, 2005, 04:12:05 PM
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Warning: The following link will place many tracking cookies on your computer. Visit at your own risk.
http://www.gophergas.com/funstuff/womendrivers.htm
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rofl :rofl
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Pity the bronze medal is doctored... pretty obvious if you pay attention to her shadow (plus I had already seen the original pic) :)
Daniel
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Get out Adaware folks. You are going to need it for that site.
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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!
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Does not compute skuzzy
what does the site leave on my mac?
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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.
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hopefully something that will break it so you can get a proper computer
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sounds like you have reasonable security settings Nilsen. Most people do not. Carry on.
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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! :p
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Just last week I couldn't even spell genious and now I am!
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i knew i was a genious!
yes your due for promotion like this guy ....
:lol
http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=8631
With promotion and troop inspection pictures..
DoctorYo
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Originally posted by DoctorYO
yes your due for promotion like this guy ....
:lol
http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=8631
With promotion and troop inspection pictures..
DoctorYo
Yup! Nils is one hell of a soldier
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
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.
Here's the trick... If you have a router, find the screen or page for blocked sites and add adserv, doubleclick and any other data miners to the list.
Parents use it in a desperate and futile attempt to keep teenage boys from finding porn on the internet, but it works wonders at stopping advertisements. :)
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Skuzzy...I for one appreciate the fact that you are pointing this stuff out to posters here.
I don't click links anymore...I've innocently done so in the past and totally filled my computer at home with adware/spyware AND worms and trojans to the point at which I had to have the machine rebuilt.
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Of course, anyone with a good software firewall can do this even easier just by configuring it to block 3rd party cookies. Those are the ONLY ones that are risky in any fashion. To be clear, that risk is defined as 'they can track your progress across other websites that use the same 3rd party advertising'.
This is one of many things that a software firewall can do that a hardware one cannot because it can monitor a specific web browsing session.
Another thing a software firewall can do is prevent un-approved applications from transmitting information outwards. A hardware router/firewall cannot protect you from spyware/malware if it's using normal channels (eg, http) to send and receive instructions.
Just an FYI. For the record, I am no longer in charge of Norton Internet Security.