Search resulted in third-party cookie attempt

[MichaelCrawford]

Someone suggested to me that I should use adbrite to serve ads on my site. So I went to [google.ca...] and entered adbrite in the form and did a search.

Lo and behold, Mozilla popped up a messagebox saying "http://www.adbrite.com/" wants to set a cookie.

Understand, that would reasonably happen if I went to adbrite's website. But I hadn't done that. I was only looking at google's results page for the search. They are allowing third-party websites to cookie the browsers of users who perform searches!

I told everyone I knew that the beginning of the end for Google would be when they went public. You heard it here first folks. Remember when Altavista was the top search engine, and was actually pretty good, before they sold out?

I'm getting off adsense as soon as I can. I'm going to serve my own damn ads. Before I know it, google will be serving popups and pornsite ads in my pages.

[Brett_Tabke]

Google didn't set a google - AdBrite/Mozilla set a cookie after Google sent a prefetch command to moz. Disable prefetching in Mozilla and it is fine...

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