---------------------------- Many browsers can be configured into three states (1) accept anything (2) reject third-party cookies (3) reject all cookies. --------------------------- Or "ask me every time". Sites should not require cookies just to look around. I get it if there's a transaction to be made, but just to look? :-( Especially a site like RIPE! scott ps. the www.cookielaw.org site uses the GOOG's Urchin cookies as well as one of their own. No one asked my permission.
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>wrote:
Or "ask me every time". Sites should not require cookies just to look around. I get it if there's a transaction to be made, but just to look? :-( Especially a site like RIPE!
Umm.. Before deciding what sites should or shouldn't be doing, did you actually check WHY they are setting cookies? www.ripe.net sets 2 cookies for me : serverid=ws-www-plone2 wdm_last_run=1358067104394 The first of these is a fairly typical cookie for sites to set, and is normally use for session persistence when load balancing. The second seems to be related to something they are running to check IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, and specifically controlling that it only gets run once for each client. That seems to be a perfectly acceptable use of cookies for me, and is something that could not reliably be done any other way. Scott
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