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I'm confused about what I should have my cookie settings set to.
I want to keep all the "tracking", advertising and privacy-invading
cookies away, while there are of course some sites that I visit where I
really do need cookies (web forums etc.).
So what's the best and most practical way to set it up in
Seamonkey/Mozilla? There's a lot of combinations of things, and I
haven't quite figured it out yet.
I'm using Mozilla 1.0 on a Mac running MacOS 10.4.4. I also have Mozilla
1.7.12.
On 07-02-2006 19:31 CET, Arild P. composed this enchanting statement:[color=blue]
> I'm confused about what I should have my cookie settings set to.
>
> I want to keep all the "tracking", advertising and privacy-invading
> cookies away, while there are of course some sites that I visit where I
> really do need cookies (web forums etc.).
>
> So what's the best and most practical way to set it up in
> Seamonkey/Mozilla? There's a lot of combinations of things, and I
> haven't quite figured it out yet.
>
> I'm using Mozilla 1.0 on a Mac running MacOS 10.4.4. I also have
> Mozilla 1.7.12.[/color]
If you really want to:
start with looking at each individual cookie to build up an exception list.
It will take a while depending on your interests.
You may wish to install the cookie button for ease of use, available at:
[url]http://basic.mozdev.org/cookiebutton/[/url]
Melchert Fruitema wrote:[color=blue]
> On 07-02-2006 19:31 CET, Arild P. composed this enchanting statement:[/color]
/snip/
[color=blue]
> If you really want to:
> start with looking at each individual cookie to build up an exception list.
> It will take a while depending on your interests.
>
> You may wish to install the cookie button for ease of use, available at:
>
> [url]http://basic.mozdev.org/cookiebutton/[/url][/color]
Does that work with SeaMonkey?
Lee
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On 07-02-2006 21:46 CET, Leonidas Jones composed this enchanting statement:[color=blue]
> Melchert Fruitema wrote:[color=green]
>> On 07-02-2006 19:31 CET, Arild P. composed this enchanting statement:[/color]
>
> /snip/
>[color=green]
>> If you really want to:
>> start with looking at each individual cookie to build up an exception
>> list.
>> It will take a while depending on your interests.
>>
>> You may wish to install the cookie button for ease of use, available at:
>>
>> [url]http://basic.mozdev.org/cookiebutton/[/url][/color]
>
> Does that work with SeaMonkey?
>
> Lee
>[/color]
Oops, I was thinking firefox.
the cookiebutton has no install script for SM, unfortunately.
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Kind regards,
Melchert
MacOS 10.3.9/Firefox 1.5/Thunderbird 1.5
_Arild P._ spoke thusly on 07/02/2006 1:31 PM:[color=blue]
> I'm confused about what I should have my cookie settings set to.
>
> I want to keep all the "tracking", advertising and privacy-invading
> cookies away, while there are of course some sites that I visit where I
> really do need cookies (web forums etc.).
>
> So what's the best and most practical way to set it up in
> Seamonkey/Mozilla? There's a lot of combinations of things, and I
> haven't quite figured it out yet.
>
> I'm using Mozilla 1.0 on a Mac running MacOS 10.4.4. I also have Mozilla
> 1.7.12.[/color]
I don't know of any spyware scanning software for Mac, but what I do is
set my browser to accept all images. I'll occasionally do a spyware
scan, part of which is detecting tracking cookies. When I see the
report, I'll add the domains of those tracking cookies to my "deny" list.
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Chris Ilias wrote:[color=blue]
> _Arild P._ spoke thusly on 07/02/2006 1:31 PM:[color=green]
>> I'm confused about what I should have my cookie settings set to.
>>
>> I want to keep all the "tracking", advertising and privacy-invading
>> cookies away, while there are of course some sites that I visit where I
>> really do need cookies (web forums etc.).
>>
>> So what's the best and most practical way to set it up in
>> Seamonkey/Mozilla? There's a lot of combinations of things, and I
>> haven't quite figured it out yet.
>>
>> I'm using Mozilla 1.0 on a Mac running MacOS 10.4.4. I also have
>> Mozilla 1.7.12.[/color]
>
> I don't know of any spyware scanning software for Mac, but what I do is
> set my browser to accept all images. I'll occasionally do a spyware
> scan, part of which is detecting tracking cookies. When I see the
> report, I'll add the domains of those tracking cookies to my "deny" list.[/color]
[url]http://www.unwantedlinks.com/macsupport.htm[/url]
I don't actually use Macscan at this point, there just isn't that much
point. We'll see if malware starts to target OSX.
Lee
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