Persistant cookies:

[nompendulo1]

Could you tell me a bit more about this, I know that a "persistent cookie" is a small bit of information that is placed on a web user's hard drive by a web site or Internet server, and becomes a privacy matter when uses of that technology can track the activities of users over time and across different web sites.



Are these cookies developed purposely by the webdeveloper of that site by means of a program language.

[ronniethedodger]

Cookies cannot access another domains cookie, so tracking across multiple sites should not be possible. There was a problem with this once, but that problem was plugged quite a while back.

If you want to see your cookie right now, type this into your browser address window javascript:alert(document.cookie);

Some personal information such as your browser type, IP address, etc can be gotten to without the use of a cookie. You can stop this information from being given away by going to Anonymizer ; this site works like a proxy server, which also filters cookies. Another site that does the same thing is The-Cloak. I am sure there are some others out there.