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"bug" is appropriate in the "spy" sense of "bugging" a room. "Web Spies" might get the point across better. Wait until you see Persistent Identification Eleme
by dhimes 18y ago
"bug" is appropriate in the "spy" sense of "bugging" a room. "Web Spies" might get the point across better. Wait until you see Persistent Identification Elements. That's what is being used now, because people have caught on to cookies.
- mattmaroon 18y agoIt makes sense once you understand what Ghostery is doing, but it has too many other well-known and totally different meanings. When you first read the page though, it's just confusing. Just call them spyware cookies or some catchphrase everyone will understand immediately. When you're trying to explain what you do it's best to go with words people know and leave coining new terms to Snoop Dogg.
- dcancel 18y agoI created Ghostery so I could see what trackers, analytics and widgets sites I visit use. Very different use case than the misnomer "spyware cookies". Spyware cookies are something invented by Spyware software vendors to sell more software. "Spyware cookies" miss the issue IMHO. It is the responsibility of the sites you visit to remain transparent; focusing on "cookies" incorrectly makes it a 3rd party service issue, i.e. tell me who allowed the cookie to be set in the first place not just that it exists.
- mattmaroon 18y agoOk, perhaps there's a better term then. I hadn't given it much thought. I just feel like "web bug" is too confusing.