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Posted by Harlan Messinger on April 6, 2008, 9:28 pm
Please log in for more thread options WiW wrote:
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>> On 04/06/08 09:38 am, WiW wrote:
>>> FYI: It appears that Phorm (a targeted advertising system which taps
>>> into
>>> ISP networks) will be setting its own persistent cookie for most every
>>> website the user visits. It appears as though the cookie may be named
>>> "webwise". One technical description of the system and this aspect can
>>> be found via:
>>>
>> Firefox (and Seamonkey) allows you considerable control over how cookies
>> are managed. From accepting none at all, a whitelist or a blacklist of
>> sites, retained for the session or forever. Your choice.
>
> Your comment seems geared towards helping me, as a user, cope with the
> system. While I appreciate that, I posted this here because there is a
> potential issue for those of us who have websites. Namely, that this
> system
> (and potentially others like it) will be setting cookies for our
> domains. Read
> the report: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/080404phorm.pdf for the details.
I'm stunned.
I also wondered whether maybe browsers don't set cookies from responses
with status codes not in the 200 series, but I ran a test and Firefox does.
I just finished e-mailing my congressman and both senators.
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