Responding to msg by jsw@netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein) on Thu, 15 Feb 1:22 AM
You may choose not to believe me, but I have been planning to add an option to disable cookies in the next release for quite some time now.
Just disabling cookies won't keep sites from tracking your movements. Many sites require you to register and log in when you access them. These sites will be able to track your movements through them with or without cookies.
Jeff, You shoot electro-ammunition straight, so your credibility is solid. HQ should take target practice from you. Although explanations on this list may not be comprehensible to the public, or to NSCP's PR Dept. What are the chances that NSCP might add a feature that would allow customers to say yes or no at login to tracking their movements at any site visited, with a friendly notice that tracking analysis was being done? That might redeem the exchange value of cookies, and perhaps come closer to gving customers equality with the merchants, and merchants credibility with customers. As you are giving Netscape here, despite Wall Street's treachery. Thanks for your even-tempered and well-aimed potshots here. John