{"id":932,"date":"2001-11-01T07:45:28","date_gmt":"2001-11-01T12:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=932"},"modified":"2001-11-01T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2001-11-01T12:45:28","slug":"cookie_monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/01\/cookie_monster.html","title":{"rendered":"Cookie Monster?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The EU is considering new privacy laws that would ban cookies<\/a>. For the non-Netty of you out there, cookies are small files which web pages can save to your machine. These files can serve a purpose as simple as confirming that you’ve visited the site before, to storing what information you typed there for convenience next time you visit — to purposes as possibly devious as noting what advertising sites you clicked through to, what you purchased from them, and what sales pitches seem to be effective.<\/p>\n

It’s mostly benign technology, in my opinion, serving useful purposes (on sites such as Amazon). For those who don’t want even this tiny privacy hole, every browser I know (even IE) has tools to block or clear off cookies, and IE is adding even finer granularity of control to this.<\/p>\n

By and large the EU has much stricter privacy laws that the US — sometimes a good thing, sometimes not, think I. This is one case where the endeavor for privacy may actually remove some good functionality in return for minimal added protection.<\/p>\n

(Via NextDraft)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EU is considering new privacy laws that would ban cookies. 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