On 13 Jun 96 at 16:19, Hal wrote:

A post on comp.risks described a web adverstising service called "doubleclick". As described in its web pages at <URL: http://ad.doubleclick.net >, this service provides targetted advertising on the web. [..] One question is whether enough information to uniquely identify users is routinely provided by widely used browsers like Netscape. I have

Supposedly Netscape has been responsive to this. One of the changes in 2.0 had to do with giving out personal info (and people can verify this if they have the servers, etc.)

refrained from telling my Netscape browser my name and email address out of fear that it would reveal this information; as a result, I can't use mailto: links, which is annoying (and also suspicious; lynx allows me to do mailto: without permanently entering an email address).

Lynx running under Unix can find out who you are on the system by checking your user id and the hostname. Rob. --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.