From: Robert Bernier <robert.bernier5@sympatico.ca>
To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Ads dont connect
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 11:28:28 -0400
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Would it be possible for you to use session ids thus avoiding the whole issue of cookies?


On Tuesday 06 September 2005 11:15, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> > Any update on what?  Without cookies enabled, the click through will go
> > to http://www.postgresql.org ... having it to go 'some random site'
> > wouldn't be particularly appropriate ...
> >
> > We could put up a page on http://www.postgresql.org that explains that
> > cookies are required for the banner ads, and have it redirect to there
> > though ...
>
> Any update as in "any fix". I suspect more and more people are blocking
> cookies except for known sites, and ones with "ads" in the name are
> particularly likely to be shunned.
>
> Perhaps, if no cookies are detected, ads.postgresql.org opens to a simple
> page that states that since cookies are not enabled, it cannot tell which
> ad you clicked on, but presents a clickable list of all sponsors/ads for
> the site, so the user can find the one in question they were interested in.