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Tracking cookies? Anyone know about them? *DELETED*
    #13731237 - 01/04/11 06:52 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: Tracking cookies? Anyone know about them? [Re: thetechnician]
    #13731250 - 01/04/11 06:54 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

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Tracking cookies may be used to track internet users' web browsing habits. This can also be done in part by using the IP address of the computer requesting the page or the referrer field of the HTTP header, but cookies allow for greater precision. This can be demonstrated as follows:

  1. If the user requests a page of the site, but the request contains no cookie, the server presumes that this is the first page visited by the user; the server creates a random string and sends it as a cookie back to the browser together with the requested page;
  2. From this point on, the cookie will be automatically sent by the browser to the server every time a new page from the site is requested; the server sends the page as usual, but also stores the URL of the requested page, the date/time of the request, and the cookie in a log file.

By looking at the log file, it is then possible to find out which pages the user has visited and in what sequence. For example, if the log contains some requests done using the cookie id=abc, it can be determined that these requests all come from the same user. The URL and date/time stored with the cookie allows for finding out which pages the user has visited, and at what time.

Third-party cookies and Web bugs, explained below, also allow for tracking across multiple sites. Tracking within a site is typically used to produce usage statistics, while tracking across sites is typically used by advertising companies to produce anonymous user profiles (which are then used to determine what advertisements should be shown to the user).

A tracking cookie may potentially infringe upon the user's privacy but they can be easily removed. Current versions of popular web browsers include options to delete 'persistent' cookies when the application is closed.


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Re: Tracking cookies? Anyone know about them? [Re: Enthrall]
    #13731275 - 01/04/11 06:59 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

Thanks for the answer, it seems pretty clear. I've been clearing my cookies before job hunting just to be on the safe side, but it's good to know this! Of course, I doubt there are very few companies that invest that much energy into screening their employees, but federal jobs might..


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