Comments on: "Dirty" Cookies and Facebook Insanity

By: Mike Chapman

Mike Chapman — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:44:39 +0000

Sorry I missed this post earlier. I’m here because of your mention of Wikinomics the book. In case you missed it, the concepts of Wikinomics are being translated into real world enterprises. Don Tapscott is working with Steve Papermaster and nGenera to implement the concepts of the book into the Global 2000 companies. Click the link http://is.gd/cjx to learn more. Let me know if you would like to talk to Don or Steve.

By: Remi

Remi — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:05:52 +0000

I tried to cast a vote for “who cares, enable them”, but it triggered a message like “cookies disabled”. Gee, I did not even know they were disabled, which sort of proves my point: I do not care!

By: David

David — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:32:35 +0000

A better answer to blocking cookies is to set them to session cookies only. That way to the site it appears that you accept them (and are a new user). But for privacy nothing remains.

By: For Google, The Internet Is Their Social Network (Plus, Business Communities and Cookie Marketing) « SmoothSpan Blog

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:12:10 +0000

[...] one tiny little fly in this ointment for either company, and that’s the idea that for some people, such “dirty cookies” are downright creepy from a privacy standpoint. I have to [...]

By: Marika

Marika — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:26:42 +0000

I’ve disallowed cookies in Firefox and use the Permit Cookie add-on, which places a button on the statusbar where I can set cookie permissions on the site that I am. I also use another extension, Cookie Culler, to protect the cookies I want to keep permanently, and delete others every time I close Firefox.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:21:59 +0000

Oh, that’s truly ironic, and I didn’t think of it, sorry. Although my setting would help, I could approve this specific cookie and not others …

By: Webomatica

Webomatica — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:46:16 +0000

So – I try to vote in the poll, and it tells me I have cookies disabled, so I can’t vote. Some humor in that, but your poll will be hopelessly skewed since – as you write in your post – I’m not inclined to set cookies on just for this!

By: Facebook and Google: Intent vs. relevance - - mathewingram.com/work

Facebook and Google: Intent vs. relevance - - mathewingram.com/work — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:01:06 +0000

[...] The point (I think) is that a targeted advertising network — based on Facebook’s (presumably) rich database of user profiles and demographic data, combined with the use of cookies that would generate ads even outside of Facebook’s network — could produce a much higher payoff than the site’s current attempts at advertising are doing. I’m not an advertising guy, but I think there is probably a lot to that theory (although there are flaws). [...]