> By DAVID KESMODEL THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
>> Earlier this summer, Uno Bloom, a songwriter in Brentwood, Tenn.,
>> noticed that his home computer appeared to be slowing down. He
>> searched the files on his hard drive in an effort to uncover clutter,
>> and found dozens of Internet cookies labeled "2o7.net."
> Maybe I'm being dim, but I don't see how cookies will make a system slow
> down appreciably.
Well, Spybot detects 2o7.net tracking cookies as spyware. Maybe Uno Bloom was mistaking cookies for spyware.
I think that the effect of a website storing cookies on your computer is typically blown way out of proportion by the press and much of the computer industry.
Of course, I do still block cookies from netshelter.net, 2o7.net, advertising.com and several other similar companies that try to put them on my computer because I don't think there's any great need for anyone to be tracking which banner ads I've been shown. (I know they'd disagree.) :)
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