Chistoso Posted February 12, 2010 Share #1 Posted February 12, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) In addition to the l-camera-forum.com cookies, why does the forum put an ebay.com cookie on my computer? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted February 12, 2010 Posted February 12, 2010 Hi Chistoso, Take a look here ebay cookie. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
LUF Admin Posted February 12, 2010 Share #2 Posted February 12, 2010 Brings a little income for the forum if you go to ebay and buy stuff there. No personal data are given to them. Andreas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitom Posted February 13, 2010 Share #3 Posted February 13, 2010 Brings a little income for the forum if you go to ebay and buy stuff there. No personal data are given to them. Andreas It would be very interesting for the audience to know what else is done to the computer, means which other cookies (super-cookies, DOM-cookies) are set to the computer? I think some transparency is good Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted February 14, 2010 Share #4 Posted February 14, 2010 It would be very interesting for the audience to know what else is done to the computer, means which other cookies (super-cookies, DOM-cookies) are set to the computer? The audience might be interested to know that some browsers readily display that information if asked to. Firefox comes to mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUF Admin Posted February 14, 2010 Share #5 Posted February 14, 2010 Here is a screenshot of which cookies are set by the Leica Forum: [ATTACH]188137[/ATTACH] ebay Cookie is used to track if users were forwarded by the LF to ebay, generates a little income for the forum _utmx Cookies are set by Google Analytics, needed for website analytics Cookies starting with OA come from our internal ad server (OpenX) Other cookies from http://www.l-camera-forum.com are used for "Remember me" function and other usability enhancements doubleclick.net is an advertising network owned by Google, also used for tracking links in order to pay the forum No Flash, DOM or Super Cookies Summary: All cookies are needed - either for user convenience or for financing and tracking. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via PM - I'm not reading all forums posts, so I'm missing threads like this one from time to time. Best regards from Bonn Andreas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitom Posted February 14, 2010 Share #6 Posted February 14, 2010 Here is a screenshot of which cookies are set by the Leica Forum: [ATTACH]188137[/ATTACH] ebay Cookie is used to track if users were forwarded by the LF to ebay, generates a little income for the forum _utmx Cookies are set by Google Analytics, needed for website analytics Cookies starting with OA come from our internal ad server (OpenX) Other cookies from http://www.l-camera-forum.com are used for "Remember me" function and other usability enhancements doubleclick.net is an advertising network owned by Google, also used for tracking links in order to pay the forum No Flash, DOM or Super Cookies Summary: All cookies are needed - either for user convenience or for financing and tracking. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via PM - I'm not reading all forums posts, so I'm missing threads like this one from time to time. Best regards from Bonn Andreas Thanks for transparency! I am sure not all the users (me too) look frequently into their browser cookie listings, so that might be a good information for them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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