Based on your privacy settings, some cookies were restricted

[forresto]

When I visit my own site in IE6 with the "Medium" security setting I get the broken security icon, clicking on that gives this message:
"Based on your privacy settings, some cookies were restricted or blocked."
And it shows that two cookies from statcounter are being blocked.
http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js - Blocked
http://c1.statcounter.com/t.php?sc_project=... - Blocked
Clicking on Summary for the above lines gives;
Privacy Summary for:
Statcounter (http://statcounter.com/)
To read this web site's complete privacy policy, click here (http://www.statcounter.com/register.html).
...
The "complete privacy policy" link is dead, could that be why the cookies are blocked?

Is anybody else getting this error? Clearly we can't ask our website visitors to change their privacy settings so that we can effectively count their hits. I think Medium is the default security setting.

This is happening with some MSIEs it seems and I'm not sure why. but for the most part it is working with most MSIEs.

It is due to P3P, if anyone has any ideas oh now to fix this let us know.

We fixed the broken link, sorry about that. But I don't think that was causing any problem.

[forresto]

It seems to be still broken. Clicking on the privacy alert icon still shows blocked cookies.

[sjordan]

Hello,

I'm getting the same blocked cookie problem due to the P3P.

One solution I offer to the webmaster of statcounter is simply add a company privacy policy.

The p3p is kinda stupid because to create one does not require the webmaster of the site to even know what they're agreeing to.

In essense, add the following to the header of the cookie being set.

header append P3P: 'CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa OUR IND PHY ONL UNI COM NAV INT DEM PRE"'

Hope it helps. Please follow up because I'd like to stop the statcounter cookies from being blocked.