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Re: cookies and privacy

Hal Finney wrote:
  > Consider changing the user interface so that we are not so much warned
  > when cookies are received by the client, as given control over when they
  > are sent.  Don't send cookies automatically on every interaction.  Only
  > send them explicitly upon user request.  For example, perhaps a shift
  > click or some other modifier or mouse button is needed to send a cookie.

That would create a rather different mechanism from cookies.  The
automatic response part of cookies is essential behavior for the kinds
of applications for which they were intended.

Dave Kristol