November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
10h 18m
English
Since their inception, HTTP cookies have been misunderstood as the tool that enabled online advertisers to violate users’ privacy to an unprecedented and previously unattainable extent. This sentiment has been echoed by the mainstream press in the years since. For example, in 2001, the New York Times published a lengthy exposé on the allegedly unique risks of HTTP cookies and even quoted Lawrence Lessig, a noted legal expert and a political activist:[216]
Before cookies, the Web was essentially private. After cookies, the Web becomes a space capable of extraordinary monitoring.
The high-profile assault on a single HTTP header continued over the course of a decade, gradually shifting its focus toward third-party ...
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