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washingtonpost.com | Comcast: Will Stop Tracking Users: "Comcast Corp. pledged Wednesday to immediately stop recording the Web browsing activities of each of its 1 million high-speed Internet subscribers."

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Brenton Campbell
July 18, 2005 11:43 AM

I have Spybot set to automatically inform me if a website tries to download a cookie to my computer. Everytime that I go to www.comcast.net, the webpage tries to download the Doubleclick cookie. Even though I am a customer comcast will not acknowledge that this is happening. I spoke to Donna (4056) a manager over technicians at Comcast Technical services 1.800.COMCAST and she tries to obscure the issue. Brent

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