Why Do Some People Dislike Cookies?
A. Cookies are sometimes disliked because they can set and perform functions without the user knowing. But couldn’t one view computers in general as setting and performing functions without the user knowing? My machine swaps programs in and out every few seconds without telling me about it. Some people do not like a file that may contain a cookie with information about where they have been, and what they do, if they can stop it. This type of information that is invaluable to some companies. Cookies are usually used for simple things like to store your specification of your start page, or your user id’s and or passwords, but like most things they maybe manipulated to do bad things. Cookies can be used to track you on the net, what sites you go to what you like and so on. This is not the only your tracked by big brother on the net, for instance when you submit an auto search in Internet Explorer it’s routed through Microsoft servers. Cookies were originally designed to maintain state in
