Re: Bloody "cookies" and yahoo

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

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:22:15 -0400

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:27:00 GMT, Chris L Peterson
<clp@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:05:34 -0400, 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.
>
>This is not browser hijacking. All that happened (if I understand correctly) is
>that you got some targeted ads presented by Yahoo when you were browsing a Yahoo
>site. Hardly a big deal.
 
"Next step" is browser highjacking, like from "hotbar" or
"smileycentral" where your browser comes up and immediately
goes to the highjacker's site. I have not had this problem with
Mozilla but Bill Gates abomination (IE) does have the problem.

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