Death of Cookies, Spyware Greatly Exaggerated?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 16, 2005 @01:21AM from the to-lazy-to-delete-cookies dept.

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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In Soviet Russia by gtrubetskoy · 2005-08-16 01:38 · Score: 1, Redundant

...cookies delete you
Re:I love cookies by lucabrasi999 · 2005-08-16 01:52 · Score: 0, Redundant

C is for cookie, it's good enough for me!
C is for cookie, it's good enough for me!
C is for cookie, it's good enough for me!
Oh....Cookie, Cookie, Cookie starts with C!
----Cookie Monster
Today's song was brought to you by the number seven and the letter "C"
Death Of Cookies by fledgear · 2005-08-16 02:02 · Score: 0, Redundant

My Firefox browser is set to automatically delete ALL cookies when I shut it down.

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fledgear the archer