Wow! Never having been to an MSNBC article before, and having my browser set to warn me before accepting cookies without permission, I was mildly surprised to say the least. I am a privacy person, and as such, I will "screw" with cookies. Sometimes I will accept the first two and decline all others, another time I will alternately accept and decline or do as I fancy. There is nothing on the www that is more important than my privacy. It would appear that I will never read an article on MSNBC.com since I counted and rejected over 103 cookies after accepting the first one. But it doesn't end there. It seems that they run in threes...cancel, cancel, cancel and try to hit the browser's back button before the next group of threes arrives. I guess that this is really "surfing the web" as waves come in predictable patterns most of the time also. (It took 27 more cookies before the back button worked, that works out to nine more groups of threes before my dexterity was up to the challenge of hitting the back button in the interim.) I guess that having MSNBC cause me to just close my browser would have hurt my feelings as a Linux user, so I did bear with it (and count them) until I prevailed. I have no comment on this wonderful article as I guess that I will never get that far if I was to repeat the process. If, however, there was to be a consensus on "Cookie Monster", this one would be my nomination.
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Are you saying that it will eventually load? Perhaps I gave up too soon? Perhaps I will try again...or not...
Wow! Never having been to an MSNBC article before, and having my browser set to warn me before accepting cookies without permission, I was mildly surprised to say the least. I am a privacy person, and as such, I will "screw" with cookies. Sometimes I will accept the first two and decline all others, another time I will alternately accept and decline or do as I fancy. There is nothing on the www that is more important than my privacy. It would appear that I will never read an article on MSNBC.com since I counted and rejected over 103 cookies after accepting the first one. But it doesn't end there. It seems that they run in threes...cancel, cancel, cancel and try to hit the browser's back button before the next group of threes arrives. I guess that this is really "surfing the web" as waves come in predictable patterns most of the time also. (It took 27 more cookies before the back button worked, that works out to nine more groups of threes before my dexterity was up to the challenge of hitting the back button in the interim.) I guess that having MSNBC cause me to just close my browser would have hurt my feelings as a Linux user, so I did bear with it (and count them) until I prevailed. I have no comment on this wonderful article as I guess that I will never get that far if I was to repeat the process. If, however, there was to be a consensus on "Cookie Monster", this one would be my nomination.