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Found this..

[quote:624c4]Gmail 0wnz0rz j00.

So I know somebody who works for Google and he got me a gmail account. I asked about the whole cookie privacy paranoia thing, about how they could use the "forever cookie" to link your personal information to every search you ever do on Google, and he said, "look, we don't DO that stuff! I know everybody talks about it..."

I was like, OK. I figured I'd just enable gmail's cookies (cookies from gmail.google.com) and disable cookies from http://www.google.com, so that I could use gmail without giving them the ID tracking cookie.

Gmail wouldn't let me in under those conditions. You can not use Gmail without letting them access your Infinite Google Cookie which is keyed to every search you do.

What the fuck is the purpose of that if it's not there to invade your privacy? What possible technical reason could there be for a unique ID number in each cookie, and requiring people to give them that unique ID number in order to log in to gmail?

I mean, I'm ready to hear the good reasons they have for this besides playing Big Brother, if there are any.
Posted by ed at April 21, 2004 10:10 AM [/quote:624c4]

http://www.goesping.org/classic/002408.html

Just incase you dont like FireFox.. biggrin: