posted on August 17, 2005 11:18:35 AM
Anyone ever had trouble with these cookies which apparently are an Ebay thing? This according to some web sites on Google. Completely shut down my DSL connection and only by turning computer off after deleteing all cookies was I able to get a connection. Had been manually deleting them but was negligent in doing so the past few days. No Adware and spybot have never picked them up by the way. They show up as a long series of numbers and letters. P.S asked a question some months ago about what the cookies were but only got a couple smart answers so maybe this time, I will get some pertinent ones.
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posted on August 17, 2005 11:33:40 AM
The cookie is a tracking cookie. Go to www.esomniture.com. They are a web analytics company. IOW, their cookies can track your surfing habits and they sell the data. In addition to Ebay, their clients include Paypal, AOL, HP, Oracle, WalMart and a host of other large corporations. That cookie could have come from any of their client web sites. Most likely you had two identical cookies and they created a conflict that shut down your connection.
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posted on August 17, 2005 11:38:43 AM
I know. I found out that they were tracking cookies the hard way. Is CookiePal virus free? Ask that because I downloaded Infanview ( Graphics program) which was a suggestion on this board. and then scanned with Norton. They picked up an infected file which they were able to delete.
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posted on August 17, 2005 11:52:30 AM
never had any problems with esomniture cookies...if you have an eBay store and want to check on your traffic, you have to accept the esomniture cookie to go to their web site and get your traffic reports, which are helpful in tracking trends in your store.
posted on August 17, 2005 05:43:15 PM
I use and highly recommend Spyware Blaster - I have protections against 3926 items. Against cookies out the yahoo but not against esomniture. You can add your own block in the toolbar with Tools/Internet Options/Privacy/Sites and putting in http://esomniture.com. Spyware Blaster is free.
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posted on August 17, 2005 07:24:39 PM
Hello,
I just loaded cookie pal and then dumped ALL my computer cookies (Near 1000). I then went back to Ebay, Pay pal, Yahoo and six or so other sites I regularly visit. Most only required 2-5 cookies a few none but Ebay need about 40 cookies?
posted on August 17, 2005 08:29:12 PM
Thanks glassgrl I just blocked the tracking site in my internet options. Apparently they track everything I search.
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