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On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Martijn Grooten wrote:
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Gordon Henderson wrote:I've just visited NatWest bank site - and found that they use 2 trackers inside their secure pages - which seems a bit crap to me - they own the servers, so they can get direct stats on who's doing what, or am I missing something?In which case you wouldn't notice, nor would you be able to 'opt-out' (via Ghostery or something similar). So unless I don't understand what you mean, isn't this kind of nicer?
No, I don't think so. The server owners can gather what info they want - but in this case, NatWest are allowing information about what pages I visit to go to three external companies.
http://www.ghostery.com/apps/microsoft_atlas http://www.ghostery.com/apps/omniture and http://www.ghostery.com/apps/omniture_touchclarityThese appear to be mostly advertising type companies. Why do I want to tell advertising companies what websites I visit, and give them whatever other information they can scrapte from my browser via a bit of javascript?
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