On 12/3/2013 11:40 PM, AP wrote:
On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 01:15:21 PM Jerry Stuckle wrote:And exactly what is wrong with using cookies on a bank transaction?In fact, all banks I know of need to use cookies to manage signons. It's how the bank (or any site that uses signons) knows which computer is signed on.You obviously don't understand how cookies work and how they are needed on websites.No. Actually what I was in impression of was that there are LSOs which collect the user's information, like which websites they visit so often, what type of things they like to surf so that it aids in their marketing strategy (by whatsoever method...) and thus even if it breaks a millionth part of privacy, its a concern then!
Yes, these are the marketing sites I referred to earlier. But cookies are domain-dependent (barring a huge security hole in the browser), and can only be sent to a system on the same domain that originated it. Some marketers get companies to allow the marketers to add HTML which allows the marketers to install cookies from the marketer's domain ("third party cookies"). It's the only way you can be tracked across different sites and be tracked.
Having cookies in Firefox is not an issue because websites cannot work without it. Like even one cannot open Gmail. It say "cookies disabled" but the crisis generates when cookies reside permanently. Thank God, I found the option "Delete cookies as soon as I close Firefox" so that they remain active untill the duration I have opend any instance of Firefox and diappear afterwards permanently. Installing Better Privacy Add-on servers the same purpose though. I came to know this. Still I would be interested to know if I am in absolutely wrong impression.
I keep cookies, because they're also used for other things. For instance, the "Remember me" checkbox on a site will store a cookie on your system which contains your userid and password (hopefully encrypted!). That way I don't have to sign on manually every time I visit a site.
I do have third-party cookies disabled, however, and do check my cookies at times just to see what is there.
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