Project for someone to do

Bruce ONeel beoneel at mindspring.com
Wed Feb 16 20:56:58 UTC 2000


Hi,
  Much better, slightly randomized the cookies you don't like.  Bad data
is worse than no data :-).

  Off of my downloads page is cookiepecker.pl, though in this case in
perl.  The translation to squeak should be pretty easy.

cheers

bruce

http://homepage.iprolink.ch/~bioneel/beo/beo.html

"Ted K." <Ted.Kaehler at disney.com> wrote:
> Folks,
> 	Here is something I would really love to have in Squeak.  It is a
> "Cookie Zapper" with control.  I am upset at the amount of info that
> companies like DoubleClick are collecting on me using cookies (in Netscape
> or Internet Explorer).  I do want cookies for places I like and trust, but
> I don't want cookies for others.
> 	There are cookies I want to keep.  I want Amazon to recognise me
> when I log on.
> 	How about a Squeak program that does this:
> 
> () Keeps a dictionary of companies that have planted cookies in the past.
> With each company is 'true' if I want to keep their cookie.
> ()  Silently erases the cookies of the ones I don't want.
> ()  Asks me when a new kind of cookie appears.
> 
> 	I don't know how to make sense of the data in cookies, but you
> probably do.  An application that handled them would be a service to
> Squeak-kind.  And I could see inside it and tailor it to my needs, unlike
> other cookie control programs.
> 
> --Ted.
> 
> 
> Ted Kaehler,   Walt Disney Imagineering, R&D
> (home) 3415 Cork Oak Way, Palo Alto, CA  94303.  voice (650) 424-1070
> http://www.webPage.com/~kaehler2/





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