I'm waiting week by week until the same happens on Macs. The sad news is that it can be done already even without an (illegal) spy app, and on every platform. Everyone I know doesn't care about cookies - at least some turned them off in the first week (and failed to visit most sites), then set it to "ask" (and got asked every 2 seconds) and finally turned them "on". All of those banner-ad companies try to place permanent cookies with an id on your computer. Once it is set, they will know every single webpage (with their banner) you load, with date and time. Now they started to buy eCommerce companies, and those got cookies with id's as well. But they also have your name and address and credit card. It takes them less than a day to synchronize the id's (they also have your temporary IP code - just one single page with both id's, once in all past years, and they got you. And by the way, what about the browsers? If someone gives you a free TV, you can not only be sure that it will force you to watch adverts, it will certainly also film and record you and send it back to the nice uncle who gave it for free. There will probably be no real cure for all this, but there is one thing that I just love to support in public. On Mac there will be a new browser called iCab - from an unknown german company - Mac only - to be sold, for money...! Each of this rated them "brain dead" in most magazines when they started, but the mags went a bit more silent in this respect with every new public beta. Because they will get payed by you to protect you, and not by the business to expose you, they can do very naughty things, like - telling servers that cookies got accepted permanently, and then trashing them - filtering in/out cookies, banners, pictures, plugins, java/script site by site - supporting both IE and NN html at the same time - pretending to be a different browser of your choice, etc. etc. Just one example: turn on javascript for your forum, but off for everything else. Load the forum without restrictions, follow a link to a private site - no more popup window terror! Before you shuffle your feet,... it is still under construction, and the public beta is not really fit for the real world yet - but it is already fun to see what (hopefully) will be possible sometimes soon. I also seriously hope that there will be a Wintel version (or similar project by someone else) for the sake of everyone who accepts the commercial world, but no criminal activity by them... Information and free beta at: http://www.iCab.de Give it a try, MartinC