WWW Technical - Cookies |
"I basically
equate cookies to the notion of a store being able to tattoo a barcode on your forehead,
and then laser-scan you every time you come through the door." |
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When a browser and a web server first meet, the Web server gives your browser a text file, the cookie. The cookies information is then shared and often updated on each return visit made to the Web server.
Cookies are not necessarily site specific. In Geoff Palmer's article in the October PC
World he explains the Double-click cookie, which is used to track users' movements between
web sites, build a centralised profile of likes and dislikes and target advertising across
numerous web sites.
Horrocks,C. & Parkinson, A.
(1997, Oct 6)
[Rev: 21/7/98] 13/1/98 © 1998 V/2-Com (Verhaart), P O Box 8415, Havelock North, New Zealand.
