Internet privacy advocates object to cookies for a wide variety of reasons. Before the upgrades of popular browsers like Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer, cookies were placed anonymously and without alerting the user. Next, information from the cookie was transmitted to the website, again without the user's knowledge
The internet uses cookies for a wide variety of uses. Before upgrades of browsers that control the uses of cookies, the cookies were placed on the computer without alerting the user. Information was also transmitted from the cookie back to the website in the same manner. Even if there were websites that warned the used of cookies it wasn’t clear where they were coming from and in websites where there were many cookies it was hard to decipher them all.
"the cookie is stored in the user's computer without her consent or knowledge" Mayer-Schonberger
"who do online research on controversial areas such as abortion, birth control, capital punishment, or gun control might find themselves subjected to harassment from special-interest groups" Dyrli
OPS "gives users control over their Personal Profile and the ability to manage which personal information gets disclosed or withheld from a particular Internet sites. As a result, individuals can respond to requests from Internet sites for personal information with all, some or none of the requested data." Netscape Press Release, May 27, 1997
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