| you guys are confusing issues Earthlink's software gives you a *choice* to *disable* adware cookies from doubleclick (and many others), *for good*. Which means you'll still likely see ad banners from double click, because they're everywhere, but cookies they try to set will be ignored/thrown-away by the browser. This will result in those advertisers not being able to compile data about which sites you've been to.
I've enabled this feature in the past thru using the Total Access Toolbar, and launching the spyware detector. It will offer you to disable many things, among which are those pesky cookies.
Once you've done that, you should not be getting cookies being set by doubleclick when browsing webmail or other portal applications, regardless of which site you go to. You'll still see the ad banners, your browser just won't be storing any cookies doubleclick when it attempts to set them. They'll just get thrown away.
Earthlink would not do anything effective to protect your privacy from doubleclick by simply refusing to place their ad banners on their sites. Because as soon as you go to *ANOTHER* site, guess what, 90% chances are it'll have doubleclick ad banners.
The only relevant course of action to protect privacy regarding cookies being set by advertisers such as doubleclick is to *DISABLE* those cookies, which is *precisely* what earthlink lets you do thru their Total Access software.
I hope this clarifies things a bit. |
