Nothing in this is about Oreo's or Mrs. Field's chocolate chip (yummmmmm)... nope, its about those files on you computer called cookies...in particular tracking cookies...in the early 1970s a group of programmers working at Xerox came up with an idea for storing a bit of information on another computer. They appear to have called this little chunk of information a cookie after a character from the popular (at that time) Andy Williams Show. This "Cookie Bear" character would follow Andy around asking for a cookie. Programmers can be very strange people at times.
"Tracking cookies may be used to track internet users' web browsing habits. Third-party cookies allow for tracking across multiple sites. Tracking across sites is typically used by advertising companies to produce anonymous user profiles (which are then used to determine what advertisements should be shown to the user). A tracking cookie may potentially infringe upon the user's privacy but they can be easily removed."
AHA! So now i have a idea why the Soma lingere ads are ALWAYS on ever page i visit that has ads...
If a computer gets too many 'cookies' they can severely slow it down. I use Ad-Aware (lavasoft), use Google to check either name. I find it very good, very effective. At one point on my first )the previous computer) I had almost 100!. My friend at work recommended the program and it really does work. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm, should I be worried what some of the ads I get say about my Internet habits?
ReplyDeleteThis is especially true on older machines, running slower processors and less memory. I use a program that purges all cookies on shutdown, but that also means some web pag cookies get gone, and I have to re validate my identity, like at my banking site. So those are not listed as OK. Still, cookies can be a drag, especially tracking cookies.
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