I just read the details of the new Alex Anderson/Ricky Timms on-line program. I don't mind paying the $16.95 or what ever the fee. What I mind is they say to make sure my computer is set-up to accept "cookies" from them. I don't want their cookies. There is a way to allow them to place cookies while I view and then immediately eliminate the cookies but that is a chore I don't want to do. Haven't decided what I plan to do about this new quilty opportunity. I would like to be a part of their adventure but don't like the strings attached. I doubt I can access it through my usual server because of the firewalls. Going around the firewalls defeats the purpose of the firewalls. I will have to show the household geeks and have them help me decide the best way to proceed.
Susan, I had the very same talk with myself. I don't want their cookies. I don't know why they presume that cookies would be acceptable. @#$! With a limited understanding of how cookies work, are they harvesting information that we would like to give them or not like to give them? Polly
"Susan Laity Price" wrote >I just read the details of the new Alex Anderson/Ricky Timms on-line
There is a way to clear your cookies when your done watching the show. But I really wouldn't worry about. I am a computer techie the only time I clear my cookies is if I was doing on line banking. Because you don't want that in anyone else hands but your own. But really would you care that someone knew you were watching a quilting show on the Internet. If you want to clear your cookies it's usually in your top menu bar. Under tool, Internet options, or personal setting depending what browser you are using. If you want specifics just let me know what browser you are using and I'll let you know.
I have more issues with websites that want you to register as a user even if it's free. They want your name and address and usually other stuff just to view their free site. It's crap. I have a hotmail account just for this but still the time I just d> I just read the details of the new Alex Anderson/Ricky Timms on-line
These sites dump cookies into your machine that go beyond the cookie folder, they imbed themselves in your deep registry. There's also cloning cookies that have imbedded themselves in your computer and show up in your cookie folder but when you clear the folder they will reappear again and again. Unless you REALLY know what you are doing and can read registry keys and code and can tell what the codes mean and trace what is where and which does what you want to stay out of your registry. The people who send the cookies there know that, that's why they do it. Just cleaning out your internet cookie folder does not always do the job. The spyware and malware programs also can't get to these.
Cookies can log keystrokes, where you surfing, pick out key words and phrases in your internet chat programs, watch email addresses coming and going and send all that info back to the place that dumped them into your computer. They either use this info for their own market research and campaigns directed at you or sell it to somebody else. That's why different people get different pop ups and spam. If you have blockers it only blocks the end result, not the cookie generating the information. There's a few very popular, well know programs that are notorious for their deep registry cookie dumps.......and if you don't know what to look for you won't even know they are there. I learned this the hard way when my machine was slowing to a crawl and I am fanatic about cleaning out everything before shutting my machine down everyday.
A good friend of mine, who owns his own computer tech company (they build and install systems and computer system security in big businesses, hospitals, etc) spent over 4 hours removing hidden registry cookies after uninstalling the offending programs. Then I got "a stern talking to" :( even though I made him pot roast dinner and apple pie.
If I go to a site that won't let me in because I have their cookies blocked at my level of security settings I just cross it off my list. If you want to enter a site that won't let you in until you "register for free" go to this site (no nasty cookies)
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and they have a program that generates bogus names and passwords to bypass the registration process. I see no reason for a newspaper or recipe site needing to know my zip code, age and annual income "in order to serve you better" when all they have is the daily news or a batch of recipes. Gimme a break, how does knowing my annual income help The Washington Post newspaper serve me better! Val
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