July 23rd 03, 11:58 PM
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First recorded activity at LondonBanter: Jul 2003
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Nuisance cookies
Acrosticus wrote:
From: Guess Who
Date: 22/07/2003 22:33 GMT Daylight Time
You obviously have little or no idea on how the internet
works -
discussion boards are not free - they are paid for by
advertising,
hence the pop-ups - or are you one of those people who
refuses to
watch any TV channel except BBC, after all, all the others
keep
plastering adverts all over yout television?
Yeah, but TV adverts don't place "data miners" or
"keystroke trackers"on your system like some of these
cookies and pop-ups do. Like the one that stuck one on
mine, grabbed my passwords and used one of my addresses to
send out 700 e-mails one night when I wasn't even on line!
In fact, I was in bed!
That's called a virus and will hopefully teach you to use suitable
protection.
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