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Brian Chandler
post Apr 22 2007, 12:20 AM
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Does anyone understand quite what this outfit does? They describe themselves as "web analytics", but generally everything is couched in "business" terms whose actual significance escapes me. I did find some stuff from them advocating that their clients "move from 3rd party cookies to 1st party cookies". They don't look like anyone I want to trust.

Anyway, I noticed an odd "certificate problem" from clickshift.com while using my online bank access: obviously I clicked the thing to say "Don't access the site", and have blocked cookies from clickshift.com and webtrends.com. Why should my bank be using an outfit like that, I wonder?

I can't see any point in this, unless webtrends are basically providing them with cross-website information. Personally I'm don't get very agitated about "privacy" (you can find my photograph and my date of birth with a web search, because they are not secret information), but I expect when I connect to my bank to be doing just that. Does anyone have any views on how reasonable this (their use of webtrends) is?

Thanks - I got an anodyne, and actually wrong response to my initial enquiry, but I'd be grateful for suggestions before spending time getting irritated.
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Christian J
post Apr 22 2007, 06:44 PM
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QUOTE(Brian Chandler @ Apr 22 2007, 07:20 AM) *

Anyway, I noticed an odd "certificate problem" from clickshift.com while using my online bank access: obviously I clicked the thing to say "Don't access the site", and have blocked cookies from clickshift.com and webtrends.com.

This incident is mentioned here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/ll...sb_cert_glitch/
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post Apr 23 2007, 02:02 AM
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This incident is mentioned here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/ll...sb_cert_glitch/


Thanks for the link, Christian. Looks like the Reporter person said exactly what I thought, which is at least encouraging.
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