I've posted on this before. I know we fought cookies for the longest time. Many on our site come from the folks (doubleclick) who manage the banner ads.

I waved the white flag on this a long time ago. (disabled cookie blocking)

In many ways the AOL lost the cookie war. Their internal browser apparently defaults to accept them and I don't know if you can even opt it from not accepting them.

When the Internet was ruled by people with a clue, there was a chance that cookies could be stopped.

At this point my advice is to write your congressman about it. It is going to take a law to stop cookies.

neomax
 

A cookie may not contain any information you don't give it, period. Cookies are good around here- they store your data so you don't have to continually type in your password.

Mark loves cookies.
 

O.K. I give up I'll just turn it on and off when I need to.

Sharon who use to have a life outside the auction sites.
 

This is in regard to cookies. I'm just about to throw my hands up and quit AU. I can't even view my own listing page without having to accept all cookies. This should at the very least be limited to cookies that are only sent back to the server that generated it.

Every where I go on AU, it's a cookie from Doubleclick. Doubleclick is well known to be the biggest spammer on the Internet. Well, I can verify that.

I have been on the Internet since it was two cans and a wire, and I have never received the amount of spam as I have since joining AU.

I'm not doing anything or going anywhere different than before I joined AU, so I have to conclude that it all originates from AU.

If this continues, I will turn in my chip and quit AU.

Why must I have full cookies on just to review my seller list?

I have done everything I can think of to minimize my exposure to cookies on AU, but you can't do anything without bearing your sole.

This sucks and you know it. Isn't one cookie enough?

I was really hoping that AU would step up to the plate and be c staunch competitor to eBay, but with the current setup, I don't think so.

The site is not user friendly, even to old timers on the Net like me. What happens to the newbies?

Everything is cumbersome. From listing to viewing. You guys tried to do too much.

I've been on eBay since shortly after they started, and I can tell you that the 2 main gripes are: New listings don't show up immediately and the system is not lean.

AU has all the categories covered, but all it does is slow people down.

I have to click through several pages just to list an item. If you want sellers to list 50-100 items per day, you have to have it all on one page with a review page to follow.

The only site that is ever going to compete with eBay has to be fast, user friendly, and easy to use. AU is none of these. That is sad to me because I was in hopes that after all the hype, they would be.

Sorry Max, but that is the way I see it, and my opinion is valuable to me, if to no one else at AU.

By the way, it's too bad that the PTB chose not to start a radio category. I'm selling them on eBay and VegasToday.