[nflug] (Slightly off topic) Cookies from other Web sites

[Frank Kumro]

One way some sites will place cookies from originating websites is to
call an image... lets say

img src="http://www.foo.com/bar.php"

(yes it is suppose to be a php extension)

and then return a proper image but before they return the image they
set a cookie. The hosts file would help with this...I use the same
file and it works great.

On 1/3/07, Richard Hubbard <rhubby at yahoo.com> wrote:
> And by 'low level' I mean that there is effectively, no way to circumvent this file.  It points a metric boatload of ad sites to 127.0.0.1, before your ip stack even checks dns.  Cookies/ad sites are all chunked.
>
> Richard Hubbard
> Technology Solutions Inc
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Richard Hubbard <rhubby at yahoo.com>
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2007 2:18:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [nflug] (Slightly off topic) Cookies from other Web sites
>
> Brute force method....
> install Mike's ad blocking hosts file from here: http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html
>
> Most of the indirect cookies are from advertisers that you don't care about.
>
> Bonus, a low level way that blocks most ads, especially the nasty ones from doubleclick.
>
>
> Richard Hubbard
> Technology Solutions Inc
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: K Olkowski <wpos2 at adelphia.net>
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2007 1:42:23 PM
> Subject: [nflug] (Slightly off topic) Cookies from other Web sites
>
> 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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