Re: Phorm setting its own persistent cookie for most websites...
- From: Jim Moe <jmm-list.AXSPAMGN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:20:57 -0700
On 04/06/08 02:48 pm, WiW wrote:
I finally read it. Scary! It's a classic man-in-the-middle attack. WhileFirefox (and Seamonkey) allows you considerable control over how cookies
are managed. From accepting none at all, a whitelist or a blacklist of
sites, retained for the session or forever. Your choice.
Your comment seems geared towards helping me, as a user, cope with the
system.
I am sure this has marketeers and government spooks drooling, the whole
profiling aspect is creepy.
Apparently the only way to prevent it (so far) is to disallow cookies
completely.
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