Although I agree about privacy issues, I will keep it short by stating that
there is a difference between identifying you as "unique user 1309850825"
(assuming no personally identifiable information is also collected) versus
identifying you as "Stephen Adkins". You can use the first method to
collect aggregate information about what percentage of your users are
accessing what parts of your website the most/least, so you could customize
your website appropriately. That does not require me to know who everyone
is, personally speaking.
--Alex
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Adkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 1:14 PM
> To: Jonathan Hilgeman; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Concepts of Unique Tracking
>
>
>
> How quickly we forget ...
>
> Don't we remember the huge outcry over Intel putting a unique
> ID in every
> CPU which would could be transmitted via web browser and
> destroy all of our
> privacy?
>
> The frustration we feel as programmers who are trying to
> identify anonymous
> visitors
> is exactly what privacy is all about.
> And I am thankful for it.
>
> Get used to it.
> People need to opt-in in order to be identified.
> The closest thing we can get to this is people leaving their cookies
> enabled on their
> browser.
>
> Stephen
>
> At 10:43 AM 5/25/2001 -0700, Jonathan Hilgeman wrote:
> >Let's take over the world and recompile all browsers to have
> them send out
> >the MAC address of thet network card.
> >
> >Jonathan
> >
>
>
