December 28th, 1999
| [6:00 AM] Don't Want Your Oreos In Your Milk? Block Those Cookies by Staff OnePointOh has released a new version of their cookie blocking utility NoCookie. The new version sports new features and abilities. According to OnePointOh:
NoCookie is a freeware product. You can find more information and download links at the company's web site. The Mac Observer Spin: We take some difference with the assertions surrounding the right to choose. If a site has cookies as their price of admission (meaning that having your cookies turned on is their requirement to enter the site), then the customer (in this case the web surfer) has a right to go elsewhere. They do not have the "right" to circumnavigate the price of admission (the requirements). Now, this does not cover whether or not cookies are a good thing in and of themselves, just the right of choice. When a company or individual makes a web site, and maintains that web site, we the browsers do not have some inalienable right to access that site. This is something that many of us sometimes forget. Still, there is room for abuse with cookies, and some sites go too far. Indeed, in some cases, the use of cookies is nothing more than a poorly implemented back engine where the programmers were too lazy to properly track such things as shopping carts. |