JavaScript considered harmful

[Neil Hodgson]

Steve Holden

> Yup. But just because a browser has no business sending cookies back to an
> advertiser's web site isn't going to make Microsoft browsers do the Right
> Thing (tm) -- sounds like IE 6 has got a little more sophisticated, but I
> don't know whether third party cookies are off by default (which they
should
> be) and if so for which Zones.

   The default "Medium" privacy level blocks third party cookies that do not
have a compact privacy policy or use personally identifiable information
without your implicit consent. I can't find a definition of "implicit
consent" though.

   Neil