| | Wagner's Weblog: C is for cookie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | We need cookies on RSS so we can count that audience, too (everybody's linking to TLB ecosystem traffic counts but the truth is that they're pretty meaningless because they don't include RSS readership -- I'm now serving four times more RSS than HTML -- because RSS isn't cookied). |
 | | But there is an idiotic belief in some quarters that cookies are bad because they somehow impinge on our privacy -- when, in fact, I dare anyone to say how a content site's simple traffic-tracking cookie violates your privacy in any meaningful way. |
 | | That's why cookies are not comparable to spyware, or even spam; if you don't like cookies, you can easily avoid them. |
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