Cookies to keep?

[eyec]

cookies are a fact of the internet. some are used to identify you as a member (such as here) but others are placed when you visit a site & they (in their privacy statement) get your permission or they don't let you view a lot of their site , if at all.

finally, using firewall or Zone Alarm settings, how tight do you keep these settings?

persession, persistent, expire after X days???

 

[pmonett]

I use Mozilla, and only allow cookies from sites I know and trust. Other sites I do not allow cookies from, period.
Therefor, I retain cookies as persistent, since I only have the ones I want.
If, per chance, an unwanted one should get through somehow (as in, the site I want to go to requires it to work), then I remove the cookie when I'm finished on that site.

Pascal.

 

[ttterk]

There is another option that requires less interaction--the use of "session" cookies. For trusted sites, you allow cookies to expire when they will, and for all others you require they expire at the end of the session. Mozilla has this option.

Personally, I found Mozilla's options inadequate for my tastes and opted for more control. I use a shareware called Cookie Crusher (

http://www.thelimitsoft.com/)

that also allows me to tailor the cookie response to the type of cookie as well as the source.

By the way, Cookie Crusher also works with IE, and even works with both Mozilla and IE open at the same time.

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