Re: Bloody "cookies" and yahoo
From: Rich (rightwing_at_america1st.com)
Date: 10/27/04
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:18:17 -0400
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:54:13 GMT, Tom Randy <Sorry@spamsucks.net>
wrote:
>On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:05:34 -0400, Rich wrote:
>
>> I was on one of the yahoo astro groups and the stupid thing
>> kept prompting me to take a cookie (4 different ones each
>> time I accessed a post!). So finally, I relented, let it give me
>> one, then another one. Within 10 minutes this SPAM astro
>> stuff showed up on my screen.
>>
>> http://skyinsight.net/indexstd.html
>>
>> Well, moderator of that site, I will NEVER visit it now.
>>
>> IMO, a site should issue one cookie, if needed, for itself only.
>> Instead, they hide the true origin and turn your browser into
>> a free for all. The next step is browser highjacking which has
>> happened to me twice already.
>
>
>Dump IE and use Firefox or Mozilla. Bam, problem solved. Use IE only if
>you HAVE to.
>
I'm using Mozilla. I had it set to tell me when a cookie came up
instead of just accepting it. Sometimes, you can't progress in
some sites if you don't accept something.
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