For the sake of edification, the reason cookies are used is that they're a necessary tool. It's not a client-server application. It's a static page, making a transaction with whatever other servers are out there across the Internet at that time. The cookie is there simply as a vehicle to store the information. It's a tool, sometimes temporary and sometimes permanent, for maintaining profiles, user information, or whatever it happens to be.
This is why, when we log back on to a number of different websites, the information that we were there last time is already automatically preloaded into that web page. This way, we don't have to constantly keep doing it. We get prompted as users from time to time if we want Internet Explorer to save the information for future use. That information's stored in a cookie. I understand that.
What I need to know from your perspective is this: you have this opt-out protection tool, which relies on a cookie to keep track of the bit or the signal or whatever it is that says they've opted out, yet as my colleague Mr. Angus brought to our attention, if he chooses to turn the cookies off and delete the cache or the history, and all of the cookies are wiped out, you have no knowledge of that opt-out on the machine.
Is that correct?
