Dear Website Designers,
I love cookies. I am a cookie monster! They make life easier, and I’m a fan of anything that makes life easier.
However, they are designed to work a certain way. When you have that little “remember me” button to check, it should be UNCHECKED when I visit your website. If I want your website to remember me, I have no problem checking it once, and being remembered forever more - or at least until I clear the cache/history to erase any evidence of the donkey porn I’ve been watching.
But do you understand how much WORK it is for me to have to UN-CHECK the damn box every single FREAKIN’ TIME I log-in to your site on a shared computer where I don’t WANT my co-workers to ever realize what kinda freaky shit I’m doing in here by myself? (co-workers: kidding - no freaky shit taking place, I’m just checking my email…).
Anyway, website designers, realize that real people use your stuff, and enough with the counter-intuitive bullshit.
Much love,
-Jen
July 28th, 2005 at 11:07 am
The average user is probably fine with being remembered, so this website is likely optimizing for the most common use-case. At least they’re offering not to set a cookie - many sites just go ahead and set one anyway.
Any decent browser will let you automatically block cookies from a certain site, so you may want to look into that.
July 28th, 2005 at 11:12 am
[sideways glance] What *are* you looking at?? No, nevermind, don’t tell me — I really don’t want to know
You can get ‘Washee’ to remove all traces of everything at once — I do it once a day for a number of reasons (Shut up Vern, I’m not watching porn in the office).
July 28th, 2005 at 11:12 am
ps: your site doesn’t even give an option to NOT remember me.
July 28th, 2005 at 3:32 pm
mmm, donkey porn
July 29th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
muahahaha…. all your commenting info are belong to me!