I don’t have time to write anything more lengthy about this at the moment, but I will say that I found Walt Mossberg’s most recent rant equating “Tracking Cookies” with spyware a bit, shall we say, unenlightened.

I’ll leave a more discursive response to others, but I did take a few minutes to produce a screenvid of all the nasty evil tracking cookies that show up when you load Mossberg’s article on the WSJ site. It’s quite amusing: you get WSJ’s *own* tracking cookie, followed by _several_ others.

Here’s the video; enjoy and share! Flash Quicktime