[thelist] bah geocities.. was:netscape issue...
Jonathon Isaac Swiderski
jonathon.swiderski at oberlin.edu
Fri Apr 20 14:25:38 CDT 2001
> since when did yahoo/geocities start tracking
> incoming visitors like that? Seriously lame, and I'll probably think
> twice before clicking on a geocities.com link in the future.. Looks like
> they're trapping browser version, referer(my email in this case),
> language, OS, screen resolution, and the last one java version maybe?
Geocities has an option for members to have a stats tracker set up for
their page. Among the statistics it allows you to track are browsers,
referers, javascript (not java) status & version. . . . looks like it's
been enabled, although i didn't notice it when i was there. . .
--
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Oberlin OH 44074 You conform so differently."
-Alan Dean Foster, Phylogenesis, p. 47
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