More Than Half of Surfers Delete Cookies, Study Says
 

DARIEN, Conn. ? Privacy and security concerns are prompting more than half of all web surfers to delete cookies, a practice that undermines webmasters? ability to measure visitor behavior, offer up personalized content and make site improvements, research firm JupiterResearch reports. Full Story...

May be the sponsors should rise their payout on yet 25%? ;)

Cool!

I read the short version on Seth Godins blog. Thanks for the link tot he full story and article :thumbsup

I built my good friend his first computer recently and one of the first things he asked me was how to clear his cookies.... I wasn't even sure he knew what a cookie was :upsidedow

90% of all surfers only eat cookies

Can't say for all, but about 90% of all our sales come with ref codes. So it seems that about 90% of my surfers don't know how to delete cookies or just don't want to delete them. That's my personal statistics :)

yep, and they type all their url's into yahoo or google's search prompt instead of in their browser window too.

I call BULLSHIT on this "study"! Half of all web surfers don't even know what the fuck a cookie is and the other half probably couldn't even find them on their PC.

Agreed. See my post just above of yours ;)

I saw it, just thowing my in my 2 cents as well. :winkwink: Would like to know how they arrived at this conclusion.

Keep in mind there are also TONS of programs like Evidence Eliminator (is that still around?) and just about any spyware removal program will delete cookies

yeah, and more than half the webmasters on here promote those programs...thus fucking themselves for a quick buck

surfers aren't as stupid as most people seem to think.

He-he :) This is a very interesting question IMHO.

you can block cookies and delete cookies but http://XPays.com will track you. Any program relying on cookies to track you chose to do so with the intent of fucking you. Use programs that are hard-coded. IP tracking and Cookie Tracking is for suckers.