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Wondered if someone could help me on here......

as i Have a question on cookies......

When you visit a website..IE (a betting web site)...what information can they get from you from a cookie? (you haven't put any details in bar a username and password)

Can they get what processor you use, what screen etc etc?

or any other info off your hard drive.
 
a cookie just stores stuff on your comp :P it doesn't gain any personal info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

they basically just track how often you visit the site , what you were looking at etc.

which is why you get annoying emails from certain retailers about stuff you were looking at.
think of them as crappy retailer reward cards that let them track not just your spending history but what you were also looking at down the isles
 
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Annoying EU jobsworths messing about with stuff they don't understand again, it's so irritating that every time I visit a new website it starts pestering me about its stupid use of cookies.
Yeh great, I get it, you stick a cookie on my PC, now tell me something that I haven't known since time began. If I was bothered then I would do something about it.

Well done EU, exactly what did all that achieve? More privacy?
Well why don't you stop the NSA reading my emails you overpaid bunch of cabbages :rolleyes:

\Grrr
 
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bitslice said:
Annoying EU jobsworths messing about with stuff they don't understand again, it's so irritating that every time I visit a new website it starts pestering me about its stupid use of cookies.
Yeh great, I get it, you stick a cookie on my PC, now tell me something that I haven't known since time began. If I was bothered then I would do something about it.

Well done EU, exactly what did all that achieve? More privacy?
Well why don't you stop the NSA reading my emails you overpaid bunch of cabbages :rolleyes:

\Grrr
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This. It's driven me absolutely nuts, and is just one more window to close.

It's not as though it's changed anything - sites are (entirely validly) saying "accept our cookies or leave" so if you want to use the website you have to accept anyway. It's just annoying.
 
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