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Last Login: 8/13/2007 4:08 PM
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| Can somebuddy tell me why we have to have so *many* cookies for TweakXP's forums? I just checked, and I've got TEN today: FLVST (Forum last visit time, presumably), ASLTRG (A**h*le littering? C'mon, guys!), WIDMYD (?), BSUID (Aw, dernit, they caught me! BS-User ID!), KIDMYD (?), VISKAM (?), Forum (No probs), KID566 (?), VISWEB (?), KID676 (?). Now, five of those are one-day cookies, three are one-month cookies, and only two will survive for a year (Forum and Forum last visit), but even then, TEN seems a bit excessive. Howcum so many?
Wisewiz
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Last Login: 8/13/2007 4:08 PM
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| OK, that count was from Firebird 0.6 cookie manager, but when I tried it in Netscape 4.8, I got even more, including a couple of fastclicks and a tribalfusion. Strangely, MS Insufferable Exploiter 6 shows only three: a fastclick, a tribalfusion, and a single numeric URL one of the TXP site. In all of these cases, I got the cookies from visiting the Tweak XP site forums only -- no other site or pages.
Wisewiz
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Last Login: 7/14/2006 12:11 PM
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| I don't know how cookies are being handled on this site, but as far as "the difference" is concerned... maybe Internet Explorer is configured to block third-party cookies.
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| I do not know if you really know the truth about cookies, but they are used to store user variables such as visit date (used to dertermine which topics to highlight as new for you) . All of the other cookies from this site are for similar items. The person that choose to write the forum software choose to use cookies to store this data in. After all, that is what the real purpose of a cookie is. The other cookies that you mentioned are from our advertisers. They place cookies on your computers so that they can track what advertisments you have seen and which ones you have not.
Feel free to block all cookies from this site. Although by doing so you will disable quite a few features that this forum offers. Also, you won't be able to post.
A lot of people and businesses like scaring people telling them untrue things about cookies just to make a profit selling their cookie blocker software. Keep that in mind next time you read an article about cookies.
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Last Login: 8/13/2007 4:08 PM
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| Yo, Steve!
Yep, I know what cookies are and what they're used for, and I have no objection to the TXP cookies at all. I just wondered why there were **so many** when I got around to looking. Another forum I frequent, XP Annoyances, uses about five, but I've never seen as many as ten or twelve pile up from one Web site.
Cheers, and thanks. This forum is a terrific service.
Oh, and I wipe the advertising cookies every time I close my browser, but the advertisers don't know that or care for that matter. I leave the TXP ID cookies alone. They're fine. And I was just joking about what the individual ones were. But you *knew* that.
Wisewiz
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