Your Cookies Make Me Want To Puke
January 16th 2009 10:38
Mine are yummy. Yours are not.
Cookies. Chocolate chips surrounded by warm, soft dough, lightly baked, just a little bit crispy around the edges. Yummy.
Internet cookies. Annoying pop-up Windows warnings about security, information being stored on my PC so that spyware can see it, marketing crap that drives me up the wall and makes me hate your site.
Just a little advice for people who are running blogs or sites that cover the whole freelancing or "making money online" deal - don't attach a frickin' cookie to every single goddamned image and piece of text on your site. Take them off. Throw them away. Get rid of the ones coming in with all those bloody stupid annoying flashing ads.
It's not as if you're actually doing anything with the things, anyway. All you're really doing is turning away people who have more than the required number of brain cells to switch their cookies off automatic acceptance. You're losing traffic from people who don't particularly want their name, login details and underwear size stored in a nice little text file so that the next acne-covered pseudo-hacking teenager's virus to come along can forward it to half a dozen keylogging sites and register their IP for inclusion in Echelon.
Well, OK, so maybe that's a bit paranoid. But please switch them off. They're very annoying.
This has been a public service rant.
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