lundsfryd - 5:08 pm on Dec 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

My opinion on cookies is that the reputation is much worse than the reality. There are many reasons for my opinion, but it is based on the fact that cookies can only store information that you give them. Therefore, the focus should be on the general treatment of your personal information and not on the cookies themselves (they are just one of many ways of storing data).

> IE6 allows cookies by default, question is what will later versions do?

It's hard to tell, but personally I think that the next IE will have similar way of handling cookies, however with a higher degree of warnings and information.

If anything is blocked by default in the next version, it is HTTP_REFERRER (which is bad enough to lose from an ebiz point of view).