Yesterday morning (Sunday) I discovered that Ron Paul 2008 wanted to set a cookie on my homepage. I use Firefox, and must approve every cookie request, so this Ron Paul cookie dough on my homepage set off every alarm-bell I had.
I also posted about the issue on Protein Wisdom's Pub (because, you know, those guys are smart.) Sanity Inspector left some advice: get the Firefox add-on NoScript, to shut down a possible XSS issue.
So, I installed and ran NoScript, went back to my homepage (after clearing the cookie from Firefox's exception list) and got the same cookie-request. Using NoScript, I shut down every script on my page…Haloscan, Blogrolling, the NRA, Google, Feedburner, everything, and still had Ron Paul 2008 wanting to set a cookie. In the NoScript 'advanced options' box, I shut down web bugs and bookmarklets as well. No dice, still the Ron Paul cookie crap.
So, I was going to my Blogger Start page to remove the offending post, to see if somehow the Paulites had infected the image…and the cookie request showed up there as well. Along with a couple more scripts that didn’t show up on my homepage…google-analytics, and blogger. I shut those scripts down, and…no Cookie Request from Ron Paul 2008!
So, we have Ron Paul in cahoots with Google-Blogger, it seems.
The way I read this is, Ron Paulites see my post (not a defamatory post, per se, but one that isn’t supportive, either) and gets Google to ‘keep an eye on this edgy guy for us, huh?’
Jeeze.
