Re: Protesting google groups


quasi wrote:

[snip]

>
> (1) Google's cookie is hidden differently -- that is, it's not a
> normal cookie which is erased if you delete all cookies and similarly,
> it's not blocked if you block cookies.

This is certainly news to me. Can anyone verify that this is true? If
such a mechanism existed then surely all dubious websites would use it?
What's special about Google? It can't do anything other sites can't.
(UNLESS you've installed some Google software of course, such as a
toolbar perhaps, in which case that software can do whatever the hell
it likes. In that case it's like anything else you install: if you
trust it then install it, if you don't then don't.)

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