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Dec 10th, 2019, 11:14 PM
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How can user activities be tracked using HTTP cookies?
How can user activities be tracked using HTTP cookies?
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Dec 12th, 2019, 02:10 AM
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Re: How can user activities be tracked using HTTP cookies?
tracking user activities is against the Law in Germany, unless there is some form
of notification that this will happen when you consent with "clicking this checkbox"
to hunt a species to extinction is not logical !
since 2010 the number of Tigers are rising again in 2016 - 3900 were counted. with Baby Callas it's 3901, my wife and I had 2-3 months the privilege of raising a Baby Tiger.
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Dec 13th, 2019, 05:47 AM
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Re: How can user activities be tracked using HTTP cookies?
The cookie is a simple string of text that is loaded on users’ browsers when they visit a website. Its purpose is to enable the website to recognize and remember its users. But cookies make up the majority of website trackers online.
The cookie was invented back in 1994 by Lou Montulli and John Giannandrea at Netscape, and originally served to provide websites with a ‘memory’, so that they could, for example, hold items in a shopping cart while the user browsed for goods on the site.
While the cookie still serves this purpose, it can also monitor users and give a great deal of insight into user behavior.
The cookie is widely used for profiling and targeted marketing, and most websites set a great deal of cookies of first and third party provenance alike.
There are also many different cookies: necessary cookies, analytics cookies or statistics cookies, marketing cookies or advertising cookies. The strictly necessary cookies function to make your website operate its most basic functions so that a visitor can visit it. These rarely if ever have any way of tracking users.
However, analytics cookies or statistics cookies are most often third party cookies that track and log user behavior to give insight to the website owner. Marketing cookies and advertising cookies are also most often third party cookies that serve to make targeted advertisement possible. These cookies are website tracker tools for both the companies using them to optimize their sales, but serve also as website tracking tools for companies like Google and the entire ad tech industry.
Advertising cookies, marketing cookies, analytics cookies, statistics cookies – a lot of different names for the same phenomenon: a way to gain insight into a website’s users for different purposes, but with the same dire implications if left unregulated.
There has been quite a bit of negative public attention to cookies, and many users choose to block cookies from their browsers in an attempt to avoid internet website trackers.
Last edited by Shaggy Hiker; Dec 13th, 2019 at 10:57 AM.
Reason: Removed illicit advertising.
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