Re: Bloody "cookies" and yahoo

From: Rich (rightwing_at_america1st.com)
Date: 10/27/04


Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:19:24 -0400

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:36:46 GMT, SweetGus the AssClown
<assclown@assclown.net> wrote:

>In article <n2jrn0d8ktsnvk3uaar8j61lokocdkgvi9@4ax.com>,
> Rich <rightwing@america1st.com> 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.
>
>Well, you see....IT"S A FREE SERVICE!!!.....they can do whatever they
>want.
>
 
They already interrupt every third message with an ad you have
to wade through. How much is enough?



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