In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] writes
>A quick question - hopefully a quick answer.
>
>What type of information is stored on those *cookies*
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>I've tried looking at one or two *cookies* with a text editor and they contain
>a lot of non-alphabetic characters. I know they're small, usually a hundred or
>two bytes, but I don't entirely like the idea of my hard disk containing
>information that is not intelligible to me but means something to others -
>presumably about me. Is this a way round data protection legislation?
I *routinely* clear all the cookies out of my cookie folder at least
once a week if possible. Apart from being an all too easy way for
anybody seeing where in the Internet you have been,.. (Gary Glitter?)..
:-(( ... they take up unnecessary space. I leave the ones associated
with much-visited sites, however.
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Chris Pearson
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