re: Cookies created from Ads/Links?
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam Bradley
(7827 messages posted)
Note: this applies to the big names that run standard banner ads, the ones that hijack
your computer are a different matter and should be obliterated on site.
You do load/view part of it, the adds themselves, they use the cookies for statistics
and such. Some panic over it and while it is a good idea to clear cookies out every
now and then it is not a huge deal. Before you panic about them stealing your identity
remember the big name advertisers are not going to do something that will get them
sued off the internet nor are they interested in targeting a single person, it is
just data collection.
On Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 12:50 pm, Adam wrote:
>Do ads, banners, and links create cookies? For example, if I visit a site and there
>is a banner ad for Amazon.com or eBay.com on the page, will I have a cookie created
>by those sites as well as the site I'm on at that time?
>
>Is there any reason for a cookie to be created for a site that you didn't actually
>load or view?
>
>Thanks.
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