How It Works With the cookie management feature in IE 5.5, every third-party cookie sent to the browser generates a dialog box that asks the user whether to accept or block the cookie.
Users can check a box that eliminates further warnings.
I tried it. LeFurgy said users receive too many cookies to have a dialog box pop up every time a server wants to send one. So we began planning ways that our technology might be useful to consumers. Such incidents, however, are an example of the pressure that e-businesses and advertisers are under to capture critical customer data. Today's invasion of privacy is tomorrow's convenience.