Announcement

**Rasbelin** · October 21, 2003, 06:48

Originally posted by MarkG

please let me know how exactly it's malicious and how it damages your computer

It infringes my privacy as a tracking cookie. Simple as that. And that's why both Lavasoft Ad-aware and Spybot S&D recognise it.

**alva** · October 21, 2003, 11:41

* sigh *
Ras, bigger problems excist you know. Accept the cookie, eat it for all I care

and move on.

**MarkG** · October 21, 2003, 12:27

Originally posted by Asmodean
But webmasters and advertisers on the internet will have to come to grips with the fact, that most people consider some cookies an invasion of privacy.

i know that, but my stance is mainly in clarification of an issue that's not as important as some people think

The way many cookies function, they store information about your browsing habits, so that this information can be read the next time you accessthe site that particular cookie is from. To me, this is an invasion of privacy, as I'm not informed about what is stored, nor am I told what is read.

at the same time, all sites in the world since the first day of the internet already log your browsing habits in access logs without using cookies

yet somehow people dont complain about the existance of httpd logs...

**alva** · October 21, 2003, 12:35

i know that, but my stance is mainly in clarification of an issue that's not as important as some people think

**Ted Striker** · October 21, 2003, 23:59

at least put the britney popup back

**Aramis** · October 22, 2003, 00:24

No pop-ups. A good thing.
I'm technophobic and haven't got a clue as to what your talking about, but does this mean I won't see anymore B.Spears pop-ups when I log on?
I would like that.

**MarkG** · October 22, 2003, 04:16

Popups from one of our previous ad providers have been enabled. The frequency should be 1-2 per session regardless of forum style.

Please report on anything going wrong.

Thank you

**Rasbelin** · October 22, 2003, 04:43

Originally posted by alva

Accept the cookie, eat it for all I care and move on.

No way, dude.

**David Murray** · October 22, 2003, 12:30

I've preordered a copy of Conquests through Apolyton. I'll probably do the same with all games that I want and Apolyton is advertising.

But I'll still keep visiting (all sites in fact) with Mozilla. Pop-ups just aren't welcome, unless I ask for them.

**Case** · October 23, 2003, 03:34

I just got the Britney Spears and smilies popups upon loading the main forums page (http://apolyton.net/forums/). This is my first visit to 'Poly in a couple of days.

**MarkG** · October 23, 2003, 04:39

no gator reports so far... cool.....

**DrSpike** · October 23, 2003, 04:47

Well Britney is resilient, but gladly Gator seems not to be.

**alva** · October 23, 2003, 05:01

Yep, Britney is back and so is the "you're in danger one".
Back to normal hey

**mrmitchell** · October 23, 2003, 08:40

the Spears one. and the "The publishers of this website blah blah buy our anti-spyware product" one. But that's it

**MarkG** · October 30, 2003, 06:56

After further tests we have identified two of our popup providers(an older one and one that we had tried in our search as an alternative) as sources of highly intrusive ads that asked visitors to install software on their computers

Ads from these sources have not run (except the mentioned tests) on Apolyton for the last 2 weeks and no user reports have been noted. Cooperation with the specific providers have stoped completely.

That said, the current amount of popups server to our users is now smaller and gator-less. "Operation Gator" officially ends here in success

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