blackgold888 :
Anyone know anything about this annoying cookie I cannot get rid of ?
web cookie "ces.d2.sc.omtrdc.net"
Thanks
G
the cookie is installed by a system formerly known as "Omniture" but now known as "Adobe Analytics" as Adobe bought it in the last year or so. Its just another competitor for Google Analytics or Facebook data but a bit more stealthily hidden due to lack of apparent branding. More big media sites are adopting Omniture these days, so you can bet that if you dont clear your cookies with each session, or block its cookies altogether, theres a pretty extensive profile on your web browsing behavior stored away in Adobe's servers (but again, also Facebook, Google, etc...).
Harmless? Thats up for the user to decide. Its big data collection. Basically cookies from omtrdc.net on your computer are tracking your behavior across many many sites in order for those sites to learn how to better target ads to you (and in theory, tailor their user experience to the percieved tastes, demographics, and cultural backgrounds of their users).
You can very easily block any cookies from Omniture, Demdex, or any big data collection system by using a browser plugin known as Privacy Badger. With PB, you can also choose to block requests to domains such as omtrdc.net or demdex.net altogether, or choose to let some through and others block cookies and others completely blocked, etc. Its a nice tool, and almost necessary for this day and age of web behavior snooping.
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
I think that Adblock Plus will also block Omniture by default, though I cant imagine in this day and age, anyone is actually browsing the internet without ABP on by default.
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