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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