http://www.politechbot.com/p-01250.html
Summary of article/post:
Double-click has been placing little 1x1 'graphics' on many porn web sites
in order to 'track' the customers. While we all know that banners do this,
it's not that easy to spot a small ('clear') 1x1 pixel image used for this
purpose.
Below are some following excerpts from the above posted URL.
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Polonetsky stresses that the company has "made a commitment that we won t
ever use sensitive information to target ads or to build a pro le,"
although he says that could change with the development of government
standards. In the meantime, he adds, it s the clients responsibility to
disclose DoubleClick s Web bugs. "All the sites we do business with," he
says, "we wish [them] to be as transparent as possible in explaining what
happens on their site."
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In my opinion, just another reason to use Anonymizer or (even better) the
Freedom network (which, sadly, has yet to support Linux).
-Ben Brewer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://tidepool.kripto.org
