RS & Cookies?

[Maver]

Hey, I might just be paranoid, but when I've been checking out one of the various cheating websites, I go to a few random pages first so that if Runescape does check your previous websites it'll just come up with them, and not the cheating sites.

My question is, do they do this, or can they even(I'm pretty sure you can) do that? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't, but you never know.

[kor]

ME WANT ME COOKIES!!

i hope they dont check your cookies (but i dont care if they check mine, joking ^^) .. but im pretty sure they dont. but i really have no clue.

[Maver]

Yeah, I *don't* think they would, I'm just... over protective of one of my accounts. It's nothing special, but I'm slowly building up my stats to something nice.

Still, it wouldn't surprise me if they did. It wouldn't be conclusive proof of auto'ing, but it'd give them enough reason to flag the account at least.

[kor]

Still, it wouldn't surprise me if they did. It wouldn't be conclusive proof of auto'ing, but it'd give them enough reason to flag the account at least.
i agreed with that. how can we know this for sure? there's no way (at least i dont know any way) to know if they do.

[Mistran]

Am I the only person who thought this thread was going to be about double chocolate chips? :(

jagex may well use cookies to see which sites you've been on, but they wouldn't be able to ban you because you've been on certain web sites, for all they know you're playing from a library or something

[Bobarkinator]

Just to get something established, they are called referrers to check which site you have been on last.

[isjusme]

Don't quote me on any of this, I just used my common sense and things I have read from laws. (though they are very few)

I would say this would be violating a trespassing law, and there is a law in effect in the United States that unless the government is involved, it is illegal for someone to know something about you if you do not want them to (they have to go searching for it) i believe, not entirely sure, but I can swear that I've read it before. They would also be breaching a security system owned by either Microsoft or whoever else, I think, and that is also illegal.

[Mistran]

Just to get something established, they are called referrers to check which site you have been on last.

The referrer is different to a tracking cookie. The referrer tells you what site someone was visiting before they cam to yours and is sent as part of the HTTP request to load a site, while a tracking cookie sits in your temporary internet files and records what web sites you go to. Their are usually used for 'market research', and I use the term loosely, but theoretically they could be used by jagex to see if someone had visited certain web sites. I think its highly unlikely that they would though as A) the information would be highly unreliable and B) would present them with a lot of privacy issues

[lakerzz8]

I sure hope not because then they would know I look at po...uhm...*cough*...anyway, I have been on SRL for a while now and my main has yet to be banned or receive any warnings whatsoever. Neither have any of my autoers so I doubt they do.

[nielsie95]

Moved to General Help.

[ExofusionX]

A cookie is only viewable from the domain it is stored.

That means only SRL-Forums can view cookies from SRL-Forums.com

With RuneScape being a Java application though, that gives it more permissions, so technically I believe they could, though it is unlikely.