Death of Cookies, Spyware Greatly Exaggerated?

securitas writes "The New York Times' Bob Tedeschi interviews several Internet marketing leaders who debate recent reports that Internet users are deleting cookies en masse and causing serious problems for advertisers. Among the interviewed is Eric Peterson, co-author of the Jupiter Research report that claims 39 percent of Internet users delete cookies. Slashdot has recently had stories about this supposed trend in June and July. A shorter version of the article at IHT. Who is telling the truth and who is deleting cookies? Are you?"

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[RAMMS EIN]

I delete cookies as part of the monthly Windows reinstall.

No cookies here

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I too delete cookies after every browsing session, and even set IE and Firefox to delete automatically. No company has a right to know know what I view or what I do. It's the electronic equivalent of chaining a company representative to every man, woman and child on the planet, who is taking notes on what everybody does during the course of the day. It's an invasion of privacy.