[nflug] (Slightly off topic) Cookies from other Web sites
K Olkowski
wpos2 at adelphia.net
Wed Jan 3 13:42:23 EST 2007
Folks:
This has happened in both Mozilla/Seamonkey and Firefox, in both Linux
and Windows versions.
I am rather aggressive, or let's say proactive, in cookie control. I
have it set so that I accept cookies from the originating Web site only.
However, my cookie list will eventually have cookies from sites such
as casalemedia.com and doubleclick.net, and I never conscientiously go
to these sites. Am I mistaken in understanding what "from the
originating Web site only" means (so, for example, Web sites that do
tracking are embedded in the ones I view, and therefore qualify as an
originating Web site), or are the site owners that unscrupulous in
circumventing my will? (I know that I have pop-ups disabled, and I get
a reassuring message that one has been blocked when a Web page has one,
BUT there are certain Web sites that go around the disabling mechanism.)
Additionally, are any of you aware of an enhanced Firefox cookie manager
or otherwise Firefox extension whereby I can remove a cookie from a Web
site and at the same time (i.e. with the same click) block cookies from
there from loading in the future? This feature is one of the strengths
of Seamonkey and the lack of it in Firefox is the major point that
prevents me from being 100% for Firefox, as human nature generally likes
to quash redundancy. Also, I can easily picture myself typing in
adtmt.com instead of atdmt.com in the list of Web sites to block cookies
from.
TYVMIA!
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