22 August 2024 Scam Alerts!

The New Castle Country Department of Police

Community Service Unit

Topics of the Day

• Identity Theft
• Senior Safety
• Personal Safety 
• Call 911 for emergencies
• Call (302) 573-2088 for non-emergencies, notifications, questions

8 August 2024 - Cookies!

 Cookies - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Topics of the Day

• News & Comment
• SpaceX & Starliner
• Are you a Pirate?
• My New Desk chair
• Topics of the Day
• What’s a QR code?
• Phone Battery Replacements
• Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't!
• Wife now has a new Pixel 7
• Lessons: backup, backup, backup!
  
• The Pornhub Challenge – Are you 18?
• How do you verify age without ID?
• Now blocked in some states
  
• Cookies – The Good, Bad & Ugly
• The good: 1st party login cookies
• The Bad: 3rd party tracking and advertizing
• The "Ugly": everything else
• How does Apple Safari do it?
• Google is a Monopoly per US Judge
• Because they paid Apple $46B for Safari's default browser search engine
• Incognito / Private Browsing & Cookies