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Old 29th May 2003, 18:00
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CBLong
 
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My immediate reaction to this sort of thing is "chill out, dude"!

But, keeping an open-mind, can someone explain to me why I should be worried about some "spybot" knowing what sites I look at? The web is an interactive beast by its very nature - it's driven by people actively requesting to look at certain pages, as opposed to passively receiving a broadcast. In what sense are "spybots" different from normal websites? What information do/can they gather that normal web server logs don't/can't gather?

Genuinely interested...

cbl.
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