Comments on: The End of Tracking Cookies in Europe? http://www.peterglaeser.com/the-end-of-tracking-cookies-in-europe/ opinions on online marketing, mobile advertising and technology Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:48:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Raven Morris http://www.peterglaeser.com/the-end-of-tracking-cookies-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-12368 Raven Morris Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:37:57 +0000 http://www.peterglaeser.com/?p=386#comment-12368 It should also be noted that this article is quite incomplete. After Google received the wrist-slap for tracking users of the .gov sites, and was told to *NOT* track users unless they click on the video -- they told the public that they had made this change, but it was a lie. Instead of Google removing the tracking cookie, they merely changed its form. Now they don't use a standard web cookie, they switched to using an Adobe Flash based cookie, which is much, much harder to detect and remove. Very few people even know of the existence of Flash cookies! It should also be noted that this article is quite incomplete. After Google received the wrist-slap for tracking users of the .gov sites, and was told to *NOT* track users unless they click on the video — they told the public that they had made this change, but it was a lie. Instead of Google removing the tracking cookie, they merely changed its form. Now they don’t use a standard web cookie, they switched to using an Adobe Flash based cookie, which is much, much harder to detect and remove. Very few people even know of the existence of Flash cookies!

]]> By: Raven Morris http://www.peterglaeser.com/the-end-of-tracking-cookies-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-12367 Raven Morris Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:33:33 +0000 http://www.peterglaeser.com/?p=386#comment-12367 How would they enforce a law that would make literally hundreds of millions of web sites illegal? I am absolutely opposed to corporate tracking cookies, they are simply vile. I just don't see how the EU could even hope to police this. But if it stops at least the big 7 or 8 names from tracking (#1 being Google), it would be an enormous boost to free information and privacy. It is sad how Google now forces the google.com tracking cookie to everyone who wants to use *any* service owned by Google. There used to be a gmail.com, now it is gmail.google.com, so that it falls under the same google.com domain name. This way their tracking cookie is not a "third party" cookie. It's simply evil. I just discovered today that even YouTube accounts now *require* a google.com tracking cookie, this is just *so* wrong. How would they enforce a law that would make literally hundreds of millions of web sites illegal?

I am absolutely opposed to corporate tracking cookies, they are simply vile. I just don’t see how the EU could even hope to police this. But if it stops at least the big 7 or 8 names from tracking (#1 being Google), it would be an enormous boost to free information and privacy.

It is sad how Google now forces the google.com tracking cookie to everyone who wants to use *any* service owned by Google. There used to be a gmail.com, now it is gmail.google.com, so that it falls under the same google.com domain name. This way their tracking cookie is not a “third party” cookie. It’s simply evil. I just discovered today that even YouTube accounts now *require* a google.com tracking cookie, this is just *so* wrong.

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