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Marketers Back "Cookies Are Good For You" Campaign

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the buy-my-potato-powered-pants dept.

Makarand writes "The increasing numbers of computer users who regularly delete cookies downloaded by their browsers is worrying online marketers and Web site publishers who feel that the changing consumer attitude towards cookies is harming cookie usefulness and unfairly lumping them with spyware and viruses. This industry group wants to persuade companies making antispyware programs to spare legitimate cookies while sweeping hard drives clean of unnecessary or harmful files. Some marketers think that providing consumers more information about cookies and how they're used might change their attitudes towards cookies. Others are already busy experimenting with newer approaches to serve up targeted ads even if a user has deleted his cookies."

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  1. "Coocies are good for you" by khrtt · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's what my mom used to say... wait... no..

  2. Mmmm...cookies.... by coop0030 · · Score: 5, Funny

    C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.

    1. Re:Mmmm...cookies.... by sokoban · · Score: 3, Funny

      Of course, cookies are now a sometimes food.
      http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7421924/

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    2. Re:Mmmm...cookies.... by tonsofpcs · · Score: 2, Funny

      C is for cookie, that's good enough for me.

      Come on now, it's not that hard to learn from Sesame Street

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    3. Re:Mmmm...cookies.... by Southpaw018 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ow. My childhood.

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  3. Re:Magical new targetted advertising by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    . . .i will wacht a fucking DVD.

    Kinky.

    KFG

  4. Cookie Monsters? by Naomi_the_butterfly · · Score: 3, Funny

    I originally read that as "Monsters Back "Cookies Are Good For You" Campaign", as in the cookie monster. hah.

  5. Crackers Back "EXE's Are Good For You" Campaign by antispam_ben · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's what the title might as well be...

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