Curt mentions part of the issue that has REALLY been bothering me. I was concerned when many of us were lobbying about the spyware and adware issues (trying to fight parasites) that the whole thing could backfire on us if certain people started classifying cookies as spyware.

From Curt:
“That’s because we got too many ignorant people saying bad things about cookies of which they do not really understand their nature. There’s so much misleading information out there that make cookies look dangerous when they are not dangerous. It all started back around 1997 with very old browsers not securing cookies from other domains. That problem has been fixed for a long time, but still the myths persist and new myths have been invented many by the anti-spyware companies themselves to promote their own product.

Rather than educate people about real spyware, they instead scare people into buying their spyware removers by including cookies in the same category as spyware. Of course almost all people have spyware if they classify cookies as spyware causing people to buy their products. Invent spyware where there is NO spyware in order to boost the bottom line.”

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