Re: <nettime> opt out of DoubleClick

[David Reed <david@newsindex.co.uk>]

DoubleClicks stock was apparently suspended yesterday following a US
federal investigation into its privacy policy (or lack of it)

You might opt out but they've (apparently) got every cookie posted in
history on their DB's

Better to kill your cookies

TTFN

D

Dave Dave wrote:
> 
> Have you noticed that after you click to opt out of DoubleClick, many of
> the major sites on the Web start forgetting who you are?
> 
> CDNOW, Amazon, Yahoo - I've always clicked to have them remember my
> password.  And then I opt out of DoubleClick, and all of a sudden they
> don't remember me anymore.
> 
> It's possible this was a fluke.  I might be wrong.  Maybe my cookies all
> reset themselves or something.
> 
> It's no big deal.  I just have to re-enter my password.  But the bigger
> question is, what is the relationship between DoubleClick and the login
> process of all these major sites?
> 
> Dave
> 
> opt out anyway! -->
> http://www.doubleclick.com:8080/privacy_policy/privacy.htm
> 
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