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Question of the Day: How frequently are you watching FIFA World Cup 2026 matches?
Do you actively manage your cookie list?
- Thread starter milomak
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gregmcc
Honorary Master
Definitely not worth the hassle. I would't bother.
Why don't you just go to the more critical sites in a secure browser where all traces are removed when you close the browser. In IE they have a InPrivate window, in Chrome is a incognito window.
Why don't you just go to the more critical sites in a secure browser where all traces are removed when you close the browser. In IE they have a InPrivate window, in Chrome is a incognito window.
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Picard
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I just eat my cookies.
davemc
Executive Member
Cookies can be used to record your habits in the browser when you have installed some software that will watch your habits, or when you are browsing websites that have secretly or openly agreed to participate in the scheme, and have installed "watcher" software on their websites.
Specifically, what actually happens is that the network of participators rope a new website into their web, under the guise of "targeted marketing" and such bull sheet.
Then, the new website is told to run the innocent software on their web pages, and the innocent software gathers information that is sold on to spammers, while a tiny contribution is made in the form of pretend targeted advertising.
So, if the cookies did not exist on your computer, this kind of "network" could not work, and that's why there was such a big fuss over cookies.
Here's a worst-case example of using cookies to manipulate the user:
- The "network" adds a startup search website to their web.
- The startup search website is forced to run the "network"'s code.
- The network monitors what the people are searching for, and actually creates malicious websites that contain what is being searched for.
- The user does the search, and gets the results and is now redirected to the malicious website where the fun really begins.
Similar examples exist in the news industry, where the user is redirected to the malicious website on a fake link highlighting a single word or phrase in an article.
i.e. Cookies gather information on your machine which can be used for many purposes. They are not malicious in themselves, but, they can be used to manipulate and deceive, but, mostly, they're cool.
Specifically, what actually happens is that the network of participators rope a new website into their web, under the guise of "targeted marketing" and such bull sheet.
Then, the new website is told to run the innocent software on their web pages, and the innocent software gathers information that is sold on to spammers, while a tiny contribution is made in the form of pretend targeted advertising.
So, if the cookies did not exist on your computer, this kind of "network" could not work, and that's why there was such a big fuss over cookies.
Here's a worst-case example of using cookies to manipulate the user:
- The "network" adds a startup search website to their web.
- The startup search website is forced to run the "network"'s code.
- The network monitors what the people are searching for, and actually creates malicious websites that contain what is being searched for.
- The user does the search, and gets the results and is now redirected to the malicious website where the fun really begins.
Similar examples exist in the news industry, where the user is redirected to the malicious website on a fake link highlighting a single word or phrase in an article.
i.e. Cookies gather information on your machine which can be used for many purposes. They are not malicious in themselves, but, they can be used to manipulate and deceive, but, mostly, they're cool.
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AnomalyNexus
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Not OCD enough for that. What I do however do is change the block list on adblock a lot to filter out a lot of junk on the sites I visit frequently.
When I got paranoid at one stage I used CookieSafe/CS Lite. Then it just got annoying having to temporarily allow certain sites that refused to work without cookies. Then I moved on to CookieCuller. This too annoyed me since it didn't always work. After that I just allowed everything. Now I'm trying out selectivecookiedelete and it seems to be working well for me so far.
ToAsTeD
Expert Member
I just eat my cookies.
ME too! Never really bothered with cookies other than eating em!
Bismuth
Expert Member
Generally I don't worry about cookies of this sort. But in FireFox, I have got an addon called TACO (Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-out) for cookie control.
LOL, I think that girl needs to clean out her cache, and her cookies. She probably complains that her internet is too slow!.
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LOL, I think that girl needs to clean out her cache, and her cookies. She probably complains that her internet is too slow!.
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