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It's a completely trivial application of cookies, a technology that was introduced several years before Amazon filed for their patent. It's even more ironic that in private conversation, one of the authors of the "cookies" spec mentioned to me that they considered the idea "too trivial to patent." To characterize "1-Click" as an "invention" is a parody. -- Tim O'Reilly

 

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The following is a copy of mail that a user of this site sent to Netgear regarding their web filtering software.

At the company I work for they are trying your content filter, free for 90 days. Well, it's very disappointing. I was looking for Java PNG encoders, and found that I was being blocked upon following a link from Marco Schmidt's page to www.burnallgifs.org.

Usually when I get blocked I assume it is for a legitimate reason, but we decided to temporarily disable the blocker and see what was actually on the site. Your logs say that burnallgifs.org is being blocked because of ABK which stands for (A) violence/profanity, (B) partial-nudity and (K) gambling/illegal activities. There are NONE of those things going on there.

This seems to be incredibly disappointing. If your content filters are not letting legitimate legal pages through then you are doing a disservice. I am going to write to the webmaster and tell them that you are blocking them unfairly, you might even call it slandering their site! I hope your quality control is somewhat better in the future, but probably we won't buy your filtering service the way things are looking.

-Galt Barber

Pleae see peacefire.org for more examples of useful sites blocked by censorware.