ronknights opened this issue on Jun 30, 2002 ยท 8 posts
ronknights posted Sun, 30 June 2002 at 6:53 AM
pam posted Sun, 30 June 2002 at 9:28 AM
I am getting the same cookie alert, it seems there are cookies tied to the images Chad linked to. I am guessing it is because the pics are on the daz server. No biggie, I just blocked them.
fur posted Sun, 30 June 2002 at 9:33 AM
because DAZ has cookies attached to their images in that post. you'd have to ask them why they are doing it.
x2000 posted Sun, 30 June 2002 at 12:30 PM
Are they going to give us milk to wash them down? Because I'm having a hard time swallowing them...
Micheleh posted Sun, 30 June 2002 at 6:57 PM
Could be a way to track who references to their images, and where; and who looks at tham, and where.
MartinC posted Mon, 01 July 2002 at 1:52 AM
Virtually every "banner-ad" company will place cookies to track down statistics about the watchers. It's the only way to trace a single computer/user through changing IP addresses.
ronknights posted Mon, 01 July 2002 at 5:35 AM
The interesting things is that this was a concern awhile ago when someone complained about receiving cookies in Free Stuff. Now it doesn't seem to be a concern at all. Last I knew people objected to the type of cookies that track someone's internet travels. DAZ has no business at another web site, and surely shouldn't be tracking someone's internet travels from another web site. I figured that Renderosity would rightly see this as an undue presence from a competitor, if nothing else. At least Norton Internet Security denies the cookies.
MartinC posted Mon, 01 July 2002 at 7:57 AM
Tracking users across websites is one purpose, but banner-cookies may also make sense for a single site, since you can track users across sessions. If the server logs show that a banner got loaded 10.000 times a week, then they typically don't know if it was 5000 users seeing it twice, or 1000 users seeing it ten times. Giving you an ID code solves this.