Filipe - 3:11 pm on Sep 6, 2002 (gmt 0)

2)If Google IS divulging this information, it doesn't make any difference either that it is a 38 year cookie or a 38 day cookie! It's bad either way! What am I missing?

Part of the idea is that, rather than being able to associate your activity with you for 38 days, they are able to track your specific information for 38 years (that is of course assuming you'd be using the same computer for that long, which is a ridiculous concept - especially considering that most IE users reformat or clear out their cookies more frequently than they change computers, so the actual TTL (Time To Live) on the cookies is dramatically shortened).

It's more an argument of principle.