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Everything I have seen come from Aol or Aim is bad. As far as you know if you run the software they will know everything about you.
I will never trust them I don’t care what you say.
Look at the news at what Aol is doing and see if you trust them!!!
I love Yahoo but MSN is also good. Just don’t trust Aol.
How did they sue Microsoft when there software did not let you run Microsoft software? At least 5 years ago you couldn’t, only windows.
Cchris78 wrote:Everything I have seen come from Aol or Aim is bad. As far as you know if you run the software they will know everything about you.I will never trust them I don’t care what you say, they record everything about you.
why do they care? what kind of horrifyingly identifying information can they gleam about you from your chatting? you don’t type out your social security number or bank accounts, do you?
Quote:Look at the news at what Aol is doing and see if you trust them!!!such as…?
Quote:All the people that work for Aol or Time Warner should be in jail for life!!!!so if i don’t like the company that you work for, i should be able to say that you should be in jail for life? It’s just a job to 99.9% of the people that work there. it’s only the very top management that does any of the real deciding there.
Quote:How did they sue Microsoft when there software does not let you run Microsoft software????? At least 5 years ago you couldn’ti’ll be honest with you here… i dont have any idea what you’re talking about with this one. wanna clarify?
and please… don’t overreact so much. as much as i dislike AOL/AIM, i highly doubt it’s an evil evil corporation out to get me.
Let me put it this way, Cookies on Yahoo, MSN, And Aol main websites.
Yahoo only has one cookie that loads, and it is to remember your username.
MSN has three cookies, One to remember your username,
And two for this website
http://www.omniture.com/Aol has 8 cookies that loads, one to remember your username,
one each for the websites,
http://www.omniture.com/
http://www.doubleclick.com/us/
http://www.xplusone.com/
And four cookies for this website http://ar.atwola.com/The four cookies to http://ar.atwola.com/ all they give for info on the cookies is:
Temporary Cookies from AOL ad server
The AOL ad server is used to display all or some advertisements on the Web site you are viewing. In order to support such advertising, the AOL ad server may use two different temporary cookies when you view this site. The first of these cookies identifies the advertisement, so that if you click on the ad your browser can be directed to the Web site that is being advertised. The second of these cookies helps us identify whether your browser supports Flash graphics. Neither cookie collects any personally identifiable information about you, and both are discarded when you close your browser.Note – They said 2 cookies will load not four, so what does the other two do?
To clarify for Tigerblade.
Before dsl or cable was popular when you ran Aols software to go online, The software took over your computer. You could not run one program that was not included in the Aol internet portal, You had to run Netscape to go to webpages, You could not run Microsoft internet explorer.
Then Aol got millions of dollars from microsoft claiming microsoft blocked there software.
to answer the first of tigerblade’s questions, I don’t even use why real name when I sign up for a username.
to answer the second question, There was news about Aol last night on cnn, you would have to see it to understand.
to answer the third question, I am talking about Aol as a whole not just AIM.
sorry about overreacting last night I edited it this morning.
Cchris78 wrote:Let me put it this way, Cookies on Yahoo, MSN, And Aol main websites.Yahoo only has one cookie that loads, and it is to remember your username.
MSN has three cookies, One to remember your username,
And two for this website
http://www.omniture.com/Aol has 8 cookies that loads, one to remember your username,
one each for the websites,
http://www.omniture.com/
http://www.doubleclick.com/us/
http://www.xplusone.com/
And four cookies for this website http://ar.atwola.com/The four cookies to http://ar.atwola.com/ all they give for info on the cookies is:
Temporary Cookies from AOL ad server
The AOL ad server is used to display all or some advertisements on the Web site you are viewing. In order to support such advertising, the AOL ad server may use two different temporary cookies when you view this site. The first of these cookies identifies the advertisement, so that if you click on the ad your browser can be directed to the Web site that is being advertised. The second of these cookies helps us identify whether your browser supports Flash graphics. Neither cookie collects any personally identifiable information about you, and both are discarded when you close your browser.Note – They said 2 cookies will load not four, so what does the other two do?
Who cares? It’s a cookie, do you understand what a cookie is? Cookie’s aren’t dangerous, they’re just values that your browser sends to the server. They don’t really add any overhead to the ‘web experience.’ They add several bytes to each HTTP request to a server, something you’d never even notice.
That aside, those cookies are generally intended so that you don’t see the same ad twice, or so that you only see an ad every X hours. If you want to be a paranoid fool who has a problem with cookies that do nothing intrusive, then do it on you’re own time.
As for the software ‘disallowing’ other software to run… that’s because of the nature of the software. Up until version 8 or 9, AOL used a proprietary PPP interface to connect to the AOL network. This interface wasn’t exposed to any application other than the AOL browser program. Although not exactly standard practice, this was understandable when it was used. AOL itself is not ‘disallowing’ any software, they are simply connecting to the AOL network through their software, and not through the OS directly.
How about you find the CNN article for us? Otherwise don’t bother using it as a point, saying ‘otherwise you wouldn’t understand,’ if you can’t explain it–you don’t understand.
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