Philip Greenspun was referring to the OPS (Open Profiling Standard) and OSCC (Open Standard Content Cookies) cookies . These were browser stored cookies that c

Philip Greenspun was referring to the OPS (Open Profiling Standard) and OSCC (Open Standard Content Cookies) cookies . These were browser stored cookies that could not be bypassed. The theory behind these were that every browser had an ID, and that ID could be tracked for profiling purposes without compromising privacy. That magic cookie would be sent to every site so that cross-domain sites in the same network could establish the browser as the same surfer. archive.org is down for maintenance, but, http://developer.netscape.com/ops/proposal.html http://developer.netscape.com/ops/proposal.html is the original proposal. developer.netscape.com is no longer online and mozilla.org never received permission or wasn't able to resurrect the site.