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From: "ETM" <>
Subject: Re: [VIRUS] Ancestry Cookies
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 20:35:58 -0400
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I value Ancestry more than I worry about a cookie.

Elaine

----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: [VIRUS] Ancestry Cookies


> I use Netscape and have my browser set to Disenable All Cookies.
>
> In relation to what a cookie can do, read the story on DoubleClick,
> (a major distributor of cookies that is used by many websites) that
> was published by USA Today. The URL is:
> http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cth211.htm
>
> By the way, Ancestry also offers DoubleClick cookes and refuses
> to permit use of their databases during "FREE" access periods to
> those who refuse cookies. My knowledge of their practice is from
> personal - first-hand experience.
>
> The USA Today article on DoubleClick is at:
> http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cth211.htm
>
> Helen


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