Posts by jaseoldboss 2 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Nov 2009
I use Google's DNS service because my ISP redirects failed lookups to pages full of ads.
When Google start doing that I'll switch to something else, until then they're welcome to see my IP address if that's what they want.
The ISP 'search' page gets this plus account information and gets to dump loads of cookies in the process.
I always set IE and Firefox to reject 3rd party cookies. They serve no useful purpose at all (to the user) and I've only found 1 web site ever that broke because of these settings.
By the way, if you've installed IE8 you'll find that Microsoft's marketing server cookie from atdmt.com gets set automatically by the operating system at boot time!!
I have that domain blocked at the router and it still gets set.
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