Got (soy) milk?
The WaPo writer's take on cookies is ... not mine. Then again, I wrote the
cookie portions of the P3P spec and was "inside" the meetings between M$'s
IE team circa IE5.5 pre-fcs and the (other) IAB (the word is "Advertizers")
and the P3P tech and policy teams.
I worked for Engage (statistical user tracking) and compeated with DoubleClick
(deterministic user tracking) at the time, so I wouldn't know as much as he
does.
Walking down the cookie path there is ...
name: WebLogicSessionAc2
cont: BFQyXGC69R1Z50JL8ZBuhBubbnR3BzbFzqythwbSKtlS59ZX41Sw!-1332720106!-548373882
host: www.washingtonpost.com
path: /
type: any type of connection
expr: at end of session 616 bits of session state
labl: none
name: DMID3
cont: 4WuLXH8AAAEAAD40XBYAAABD
host: .rsi.washingtonpost.com
path: /
type: any type of connection 200 bits of persistent state
expr: 12/14/24 09:13:45 persistent till 2024
labl: stores identifiable information without any user consent
name: sa_cdc_u
cont: g00200200000006AB11034667790000794930.0018C61897
host: .surfaid.ihost.com
path: /crc
type: any type of connection 376 bits of persistent state
expr: 01/29/12 18:45:58 persistent till 2012
labl: does not store identifiable information
Registration form interposition, collecting
email address
password
us zip code
iso3166 id (string form)
gender
year of birth
job title
primary responsiblity
job industry
company size
1st-party marketing click box (default opt out)
3rd-party marketing click box (default opt out)
16 x 1st-party targeted content click box (default opt out)