Vampirefella 4
Delaware Liberal takes a look at the latest argument that vampires don’t really exist.
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It contains no private information. It does not drop persistent cookies, does not collect data other than incoming ip addresses and page views (the internet is a public place), and certainly does not collect and sell your information to others.
Some sites that I link to may try to track you, but that's between you and them, not you and me.
I do collect statistics, but I use a simple stand-alone Wordpress plugin, not third-party services such as Google Analitics over which I have no control.
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I appreciate your visiting this site, and I desire not to violate your trust.
March 24, 2007 at 9:22 am
Ok. It’s just 7:30 on Saturday morning, I follow the link, & it goes to the comment section & shows me logged in to leave a comment.
What’s the deal?
March 24, 2007 at 9:42 am
I think that’s the way WordPress works.
When you go directly to a particular item, as opposed to going just to the blog, WordPress shows the item and the comments page, just as if you clicked on the “Comment” link on one of my blusterings here.
I haven’t found a way–frankly, I haven’t looked very hard–to see if the link could just show the story without the appended comments. It would probably mean writing a bunch of php scripts waaaayyyyy beyond what I am competent to do.
I have noticed this.
When I click to make a comment on certain blogs where I sometimes comment (Suburban Guerrilla and Not Always Mayberry for two), they remember me so I don’t have to fill in my name, email, and URL each time.
I expect that, when I first made a comment, they dropped cookies on my computer. Then on subsequent visits, they read the cookies. In other words, they aren’t storing the information on their computers–they are storing it on mine.
Since I’m pretty careful about what I keep on the computer–no credit card numbers, no bank account numbers, nothing like that, I really don’t worry about it.
Opie might know more. His knowledge of the internal workings of WordPress is far greater than mine, because of the experimenting he has done with different themes.
March 24, 2007 at 9:45 am
Oh, and showing you logged in: When you go to a site, your browser transmits information. I used to have a link that you can use to show what it transmits. I’ll look for it this weekend, but I actually have some stuff to do today that doesn’t involve a keyboard.
Opie?
March 24, 2007 at 9:56 am
I’ve noticed that on Opie’s, & my husbands, too. It remembers me. But, I thought it was the password reminder feature of Norton. Guess not.
Thanks, because that happened & I hadn’t had near enough tea to cope.