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Re: Cookies *LINK*
Posted By: Adrian Ling In Response To: Re: Cookies (Phillip)
Date: Saturday, 28 June 2003, at 3:18 a.m.
Hi Phillip
To change your security/privacy settings, if you're using IE, click the following on the menu bar -
1) "Tools" --> "Internet Options"
2) A window will popup. Click on the Privacy Tab
3) There's a "slider" which you can adjust your privacy settings - low, medium, high, etc
4) OR, you can click on the "Advance" button and you can select how you want IE to handle cookies.> I was under the impression that if a
> 'cookie' was placed on your computer, that
> it would tell the cookie owner where I
> clicked away to, IF I left the cookie on my
> computer.No, it can't, unless there's a 3rd party cookie involved. Here's an example of how cookie works.
www.siteA.com --> issues cookie A
www.siteB.com --> issues cookie B
www.siteC.com --> issues 3rd party cookie, eg. "C"Site A and B are your typical merchant sites. SiteC is a 3rd party site tracking service (or ad-tracking).
If you visit siteA, you'll get cookieA. But if siteA uses the services of siteC, then you'll also get a "3rd party" cookie, i.e. cookieC.
Then if you go to siteB, you'll get cookieB. SiteB.com cannot read the information stored in cookieA, nor can it read the info stored in cookieC.
However, if siteB engages the services of siteC.com, then you'll also get cookieC when you visit siteB.com
Now, only siteC.com knows where you've clicked to, (i.e. siteA.com --> siteB.com) BUT only if siteB
engages the services of siteC.It's up to siteC.com whether they will reveal those info to siteA and siteB, i.e. their own privacy policy, etc.
That's why, it's important for 3rd party cookies (i.e. siteC.com) to have their own "compact privacy policy" - i.e. that tells the browser how the cookie info will be used.
IE, for example, if you set the privacy settings to high, will block ALL 3rd party cookies that do not have a compact privacy policy - which WILL cause ALL affiliate cloaking software (using frames) to FAIL!
In our example above, if SiteC does not have compact privacy policy, and your privacy settings in IE is high, then it will reject cookieC
Hope that helps. If not, feel free to ask further!
Adrian
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