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MacNN: What's with all the spyware and cookies?
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Nagoya, Japan • 日本 名古屋市
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I just started using Omniweb, which has great privacy and ad control features. I noticed that if I click the little cookie information icon while at MacNN, I get a remarkable list of cookies that MacNN and its ad companies are using to spy on me with. For example, Omniweb blocked the following cookies on this one page alone:
fastclick.net "m1"
fastclick.net "pluto"
mediaplex.com "svid"
valueclick.com "ksa"
zedo.com "ZEDOIDX"
adknowledge.com "as"
servedby.netshelter.net "CDCRUFEB05MAC..."
servedby.netshelter.net "IM"
servedby.netshelter.net "LA"
servedby.netshelter.net "Ls"
Some of these cookies have no expiration date, and they're all being used to monitor my browsing habits. I don't really appreciate that, and I'm glad Omniweb is blocking them.
Edit: I looked at MacNN's privacy page, and here are some excerpts:
"During your visit to the site, MacNN does not collect any personally-identifiable information about you that you do not specifically volunteer. [�]
"MacNN does, however, automatically collect certain non-personally-identifiable information about you, such as your browser type and the IP address that your ISP designates to your machine. [�] This information is not sold to any third parties, or available to anybody outside of the MacNN staff."
Hm, ok, so they claim that the information being collected by Valuclick, Netshelter and so on is not available to anyone outside the MacNN staff? Bullocks I say.
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Last edited by CaptainHaddock; Feb 12, 2005 at 10:38 PM.
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Welcome the Internet, where no one lies�
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Power Macintosh Dual G4
SGI Indigo2 6.5.21f
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Mac Elite
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Originally posted by MacGorilla:
Welcome the Internet, where no one lies�
Ditto�
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Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Hmm.. anyone have anything to say about this?
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Professional Poster
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Originally posted by Zimphire:
Hmm.. anyone have anything to say about this?
no, of course not. this is the feedback forum.
-r.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Mt. Ararat, chillin' with Noah in the Ark's broken hull.
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those ads are served by non-macnn servers. Just filter them and reject their cookies, and live a happy existence from then on.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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Yeah, the ad servers do all that crap. I'd love to see them go, but alas, they're what pay for the MacNN servers to run.
tooki
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