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On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Gordon Henderson wrote: > These 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? Well, my point was that NatWest could you give these third-party companies their server logs, in which case they'd have the same information, without your knowledge. I do see your and Simon's point about this being a bad idea on a banking site though and I don't think advertisements and third-party code have any place on such sites. I actually think that what my bank (Co-op) does, using subdomains for online banking, is pushing it already, as it may give average users the message that something that looks like the bank's domain is probably safe. But others do much, much more stupid things: http://www.scam-detectives.co.uk/blog/2011/03/18/another-giant-leap-backwards-in-phishing-prevention/ Speaking of tracking software, anyone ever worked with jsHub? http://blog.jgc.org/2009/10/what-is-jshub.html Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq