Re: [ICANN-EU] Re: University Based Indepedent Discussion Board

[Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:44:56PM +0200, Andreas Fügner <Andreas.Fuegner@lizenz.com> wrote:
> >and know the misuse potential. All my browsers show me which cookies I get
> >and ask me for accepting them. I regulary clean up my cookies files.
> And the regular user, remember, these are the people you want to represent
> on the Board of ICANN, is naturaly capable of and willing to do the same.
[...]
> You show your preferences when deciding who's interests are more relevant

The point here is that you are talking about privacy issues with cookies,
but it is not clear at all what you mean by that? Technically, cookies
do not hold more information than access/referer logs. They do not hold
information unavailable to the web-provider in other ways.

Your arguments basically boil down to "I shouldn't be forced to use
protocol XY to access the server, since this creates a privacy issue".

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