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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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  1. I love cookies by Sodki · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cookies are delicious delicacies.

    1. Re:I love cookies by eth1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I know, I deleat them all the time!

  2. Cookie Monster says... by nearlygod · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cookies are a sometimes food.

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  3. Re:Yes by SB5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I want the monetary value of my opinion."

    Here's your two friggin' cents... Some people, I tell you!

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  4. You just.. by Marc2k · · Score: 2, Funny

    You just can't publish and make a profit from information available regarding their CEO.

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  5. Re:Yes by The+Spoonman · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have to ask: habbit? Isn't that what happens when Bilbo mates with Hazel-rah? :)

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  6. Re:Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Do you think that's air you're breathing?

  7. Re:Not that it would matter, but by letxa2000 · · Score: 2, Funny
    This counter will overflow (go negative) on January 19, 2038. By then, we will have moved that counter to a 64-bit number.

    Yes, we will have completed that move on approximately January 18, 2038.

  8. Delete 'em? Nope, I poison 'em! by OpenGLFan · · Score: 4, Funny

    About once a week or two I'll get a few idle minutes, playing with my laptop while making dinner, and I'll just start opening up cookies and changing the data in there. Not to try to impersonate someone else, but just as every person's duty to scribble nonsense on some moron's database.

    It's fun. It probably doesn't do anything, but it kills a minute or two of time, and it's more fun than "bejewled".

  9. Re:Anyone NOT deleting their cookies? by HunterZ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is everyone here paranoid, or do I have any fellow compatriots in the nation of apathy?

    You do, but they're all to apathetic to bother replying...

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