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# Blimey
Are cookies being put on my computer?
(I helped save b3ta! mikenco, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:23, archived)
# Yes!, they are
(I helped save b3ta! mikenco, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:23, archived)
# Why?
(I helped save b3ta! mikenco, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:23, archived)
# God knows!?..
(I helped save b3ta! mikenco, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:23, archived)
# WTF are cookies anyway?
(I helped save b3ta! mikenco, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:24, archived)
# You tell me!
(but this bloody software keeps telling me I am being plagued by them!)
(I helped save b3ta! mikenco, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:24, archived)
# Cookies
are little text files that some web pages save onto your computer. They're only allowed to be plain text, so they don't pose any threat to you in terms of viruses. The one in your screenshot gets erased from your computer as soon as you leave my site.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:30, archived)
# But we are not on your site..
(I helped save b3ta! mikenco, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:35, archived)
# Well technically
if you view an image from his site, you're still going on it
(I helped save b3ta! Masaki, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:39, archived)
# Dontcha jes love the webs intracacies... ;)
EDIT : www.b3ta.com/board/4202509
(I helped save b3ta! mikenco, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:40, archived)
# Warning! Your computer is broadcasting an IP address!
With this people could hack your computer and fill it with..lint and devils!
(I helped save b3ta! Masaki, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:24, archived)
# So?
Cookies bad or good?
(I helped save b3ta! mikenco, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:25, archived)
# Well er..not sure, really.
I'd guess that cookie's a perfectly fine one, dunno what it could be for though. Probably user/hit tracking?
(I helped save b3ta! Masaki, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:27, archived)
# and
lentils.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Fri 28 Jan 2005, 1:28, archived)