No Cookies: Reducing Global Warming by Not Force-Feeding Your Browser with Empty Calories

CompuDrew.com does not currently use cookies.

Cookies are short chunks of text sent by a website to your web browsing software. As you may suspect, there are pros and cons associated with them.

This is neither a diatribe against cookies or in praise of them. First off, from a marketing angle it didn’t hurt to call them cookies since most people enjoy eating cookies.

Unlike a physical cookie which you pass by a num­ber of your senses and thoughts before you store it—due to the neces­sary and enjoy­able act of nature it takes to in­spect it and con­sume it—digital com­pu­ter cookies are: given to you, stored by you, and handed out to others, complete­ly unbeknownst to you.

Wikipedia has a thorough and not-bad overview of HTTP cookies. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) steers Internet standards and documents them or explains how they should be implemented.

‘HTTP State Management Mechanism’ is the document setting out the latest (as of 2024-05-30) version of dealing with cookies.

(Can you tell this was written during a 🥵 heatwave?)

No Stalking

CompuDrew.com does not use track­ing mech­an­isms to fol­low you around from web­site to web­site or around the Internet in general.

The websites you visit are your busi­ness and CompuDrew.com does not make any effort to inveigle your brows­ing hist­ory or steal it using Java­Script or by other means.

No Selling You Out

CompuDrew.com does not believe in selling you out.

I would rather earn money from you purchas­ing things from me or hiring me, than apply­ing my abili­ties to figure out what info to surrep­titious­ly glean from you and who to sell it to.

I am not against host­ing ad­ver­tise­ments at some point, however that’s not planned soon. And given my dislike for how Java­Script is so abused, I will most likely not allow any Java­Script to be used.

Factors Currently Beyond My Control

The hard­ware my sites are host­ed on is not under my control. I know vaguely where they are, but not really.

In my opinion illegal laws have been passed by U.S. Con­gresses, undoing checks & balances, elim­in­at­ing con­sumer-friendly com­pe­ti­tion by al­low­ing too many mergers, and allow­ing busi­nes­ses to engage in conflicts-of-interest.

For example allow­ing cable/telcos/ISPs to get into the adver­tis­ing busi­ness.

Likewise I believe my domain host has similar conflicts-of-interest going.

Current­ly my best advice is the use of Tor. The Tor Project main­tains soft­ware design­ed specifi­cally to protect your God-given right to freedom of asso­cia­tion. A right which Big Law and proud legis­lators should not trample. (Not to mention our other rights.)‍