[Tommy Meehan]

Hi Gang
I don't wanna sound like an ingrate, but I am curious. When I access the Tech Support Guy forums on most machines I get a "privacy report" icon telling me the following cookie has been blocked:

http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_25wht.gif

When I click on it I get a mostly blank screen with a small Google logo in the upper left corner. So my question is, what is it and why does it get blocked?

thx Tommy

[JohnWill]

Probably because it's navigating across domains, at least that would be my guess.

[Tommy Meehan]

Originally Posted by JohnWill

Probably because it's navigating across domains, at least that would be my guess.

Thanks John, only I don't know what that means. Navigating across domains. Can you explain? Tommy

[JohnWill]

It's when a web server at let's say techguy.org tries to link to an active content link on another domain, say google.com.

I'm not even sure this is the issue, since I don't see it here. It could be something to do with the display ads, I don't get those.

[TechGuy]

I don't really know, myself... If you follow that link, the image looks pretty harmless. I don't suspect that Google is somehow using a cookie associated with that image to do any ad-tracking, but I guess it's possible. *shrugs*

[JohnWill]

I followed the link, and you're right. I don't bother to block cookies anymore, it was way too much trouble sorting out which are good and which are bad. I let the spyware scanner packages deal with the ones they don't like.