Re: Publishers use of tracking cookies

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By tracking cookies do you mean third-party cookies only or all 
cookies?

I've worked with a handful of publishers developing electronic
products -- pay products -- and all used cookies, but none used
third-party cookies since many institutions, individuals, and even
browsers now block them by default.


On Wed,  2 Mar 2005 19:07:31 EST, Abbott, Bruce <BAbbot@lsuhsc.edu> 
wrote:

Our IT department has recently blocked the downloading of tracking 
cookies on our network.

With this development, I've seen some problems with free, or OA 
journals.
 
This question is directed to those of you who have some background with
electronic publishing.  How widespread is the use of tracking cookies 
with electronic journals?  Is it restricted to publishers who provide 
free content, or do commercial publishers use them as well?

I've only seen a couple of instances where the download was blocked
because the tracking cookie was not allowed, but this happened before I
realized what our IT department had done and did not note the titles.
 
They are blocking about 100 from places such as servedbyadvertising,
doubleclick, etc.
 
Bruce Abbott
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Library
babbot@lsuhsc.edu