Google, a firm that is no stranger to privacy complaints, has promised that any cookies that it leaves on a computer when a user visits a web site will automatically delete themselves two years after the event. Not even leaving the barest of crumbs.

If two years sounds like a long time for those not so tasty biscuits to linger on your e-waistline, then consider this. Currently the cookies are set to delete themselves after 2038, by which time the internet will probably be housed in our skulls and controlled by vague eyelid movements.

Given Sneak's rather large cookie consumption – both virtual, and chocolate chip, the news that a moment on the virtual lip will no longer mean a lifetime on the virtual hip is nothing but good news.

Now, if only flapjacks would do the same. That way Sneak wouldn't even need to respond to any of those emails for enlargement in certain areas.

He'd still be able to see it without the help.

17 Jul 2007