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Subscription solicitation
I would first like to say that this is the BEST site for info on Vegas as well as all video information. BUT…I am very tired of being hit up to subscribe to to COW Magazine every time I come to this site!! I clean my cookies & temp files every day to avoid virus/adware problems, so every time I come to this site I get hit up again! I HAVE SUBSCRIBED ALREADY!!! GIVE ME A BREAK! I click the box that says I have already subscribed so PLEASE stop the solicitation! After a month of this you should be able to know who has subscribed and who has not. I’m almost ready to cancel my subscription and go some where else for info.
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7 Replies
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There is no reason to clean your cookies every day. If you set your browser to only accept cookies from the originating website, you should be fine. Cookies can not transmit a virus, and if you set the browser to send cookies only to the originating website, they can not be used to target you for advertising etc.
In other words, you are being a little too paranoid about your cookies 🙂
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Terje A. Bergesen -
Sorry I have to side with Kevin on this…………….absolutely annoying to no end!!! I keep an extremely clean ship here!! But this forced solicitation has got me avoiding my FAVOURITE site, this one. If you don’t care that some of us feel this way, it will be the site’s loss. As we won’t be contributing. Surely there is another way?? Absolutely just hate it!! No I’m not paranoid, cookies must be cleaned out regularily, any other course is irresponsible. And yes, I’ve already subscribed…………..still the annoying shit!!
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Hmmm…I just happened by to visit but you do know of course that the only way the Cow site can possibly know you’ve already subscribed is if the cookie is in place. An anti virus should be able to kill the unwanted cookies so you can keep the ones that you need…
I haven’t been solicited since I subscribed…
TimK,
Kolb Productions,
Creative Cow Host,
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I use Netscape 7.2 and have my preferrences set to ask about each cookie. I just tell it to accept cookies from this site…and no more ads. I suppose there is only 3 choices…accept cookies from the cow, wipe your cookies and get the ads every visit…or do not visit the site and not have to contend with the ads. I prefer to accept cookies from the cow as I benefit greatly from this forum.
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Surely there is another way?
No, there is not. If you want a site to remember you, you have to keep your cookies around. Also, I disagree with you that you need to clean them out regularly, you really don’t. If you run IE, set privacy level to medium or medium-high, and you will be fine, if you run Mozilla/Firefox allow cookies for originating site only.
cookies must be cleaned out regularily, any other course is irresponsible
Why? There is nothing dangerous about cookies as long as you only allow cookies to be sent to the originating site. Really. What harm do you think cookies can do?
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Terje A. Bergesen -
The subject of this thread is not computer security. It is about the CONSTANT & UUNRELENTING solicitation to subscribe to a new magazine. I know that a push for subscribers will bring in ad revenue BUT enough already! I have clicked on “I’ve already subscribed” dozens of times. That should have removed me from the solicitation list. If not, why not? Is it just eye candy? Perhaps the COW computer gets it’s files flushed on a regular basis as well. If so why is it OK for them and not for me? I HAVE SUBSCRIBED
I’M NOT GOING TO SUBSCRIBE AGAIN, AND AT THIS POINT I’M READY TO UN-SUBSCIBE!
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“I’ve already subscribed” dozens of times. That should have removed me from the solicitation list
I am sorry for your problem with this, but you seem to fail to understand a very important thing. If you delete cookies your request above is impossible fulfill. The nature of web interfaces means that cookies are required save this information, and once you delete the cookies you make it impossible for the cow to know that you have seen the solicitation in question.
Perhaps the COW computer gets it’s files flushed on a regular basis as well.
How is the cow supposed to know that you have been presented with this solicitation request? The only way it can know wheter you have been presented with a solicitation request is to store it in a cookie on your PC.
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Terje A. Bergesen
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