Cookies messing the threads up again!

I always log out, and yes I could!

But alie could you check the "last hour" without logging in? I never could, well before this hooha about cookies? Ok if you had never logged out from the last time but ......

I dont bother logging out as it is only me that uses this pc, DH has his own. anyway he doesn't know the pass word to open up my pc hehe

I never bother logging out, so the problem doesn't arise.

But it's it was nice to be able to just check if there any thing new come in - especially at 6am when you've been up for two hours.....

Now that I come to think of it, having to log on to see "last hour" does slow down the non-members who are just trawling around looking for newly posted things to troll about and cause trouble.

I have always had to log in to see the last hour (as well as the "I'm on" of course).

Please.

I still want to see the 'last hour' without having to sign on!

I changed to Bags from bagitha because I didn't like what bagitha showed up on google!!!! I'm probably on page three thousand and seven now

I found myself because I wrote a couple of reviews for Amazon under the same name. Should really vary it and probably will now.

Might need a double spread.

Elegran

Good grief! Do I only rate page 14? Would have thought page three at least.

I hasten to add, I didn't actually go through each page - I just reckoned that with so many actual companies going by that name, anything more remote would be later on....

Elegran - page 14 of my Google search led me to you! (Quite innocuous, of course!)

As far as we are concerned, there is only one Elegran.

I've just Googled elegran and found pages and pages none of them about me

There seems to be a big real estate company called elegran. Pity I don't get some of the profits.

Granjura whose byname were they under in the Guardian?

Almost every website you visit puts a little cookie on to your computer. A lot of them count visitors and log the numbers on a site like Google Analytics so that the site owners can see how many visitors they get. That is how Google ranks sites by their popularity and puts them in that order when you search so you see the most popular ones first.

The site owner can also see which of their pages is getting them most customers and so on. Have a look at Google Analytics to see what they offer - and not just to big sites, you can sign up to it for your little blog too. There are dozens of similar analysing application sites on the net.

They should not identify your personal computer, just count you, and note whether you return, what browser you are using and maybe what screen resolution. They have an expiry date, which can be anything from one session to a few years ahead. Some note which other sites you have visited before or after, and send you relevant ads.

You can choose what your own policy is to cookies, somewhere on your browser - whether to accept all of them, whether to just accept ones from the site you are looking at or also from related sites, whether they should ask you each time whether you want to accept, whether to only accept them for one session. If you have them ask you each time you will soon see how many hundreds of them appear.

If you block all of them, you will not be able to visit any websites at all.

They were published in the Guardian, and I am pretty sure a price would have been paid. I just hate being told, if you don't sign, you won't be able to post.
If I can't post, then fine, I won't

You are right, Elegran. Nothing has changed. It's just that websites now have to make users aware of the cookies. Some sites don't ask you to 'accept' because as long as they display a notice at the top of the page, your consent can be assumed.

granjura Have they really been sold? Is it not true that anything you write on the internet can be read by anyone at all anyway, so no-one needs to sell what has been posted.

Could you log out and still chat before? I couldn't. It has always been that you could read while not logged in, but to post you had to log in. That is the same on any forum.

The cookies are no different from what they used to be either, it is just that we are more aware of them now that the policy has been formally declared.