SeaMonkey browser offers users a cookie management system. Whywould you want to ‘manage’ your cookies?
- For sites requiring cookies use “session cookies”. After your browsing session is over, these cookies are removed.
- For sites working without cookies, use the default setting ‘block cookies’.
- For sites you need cookies for (see below), use ‘accept cookies for this site’ and do so individually on a site by site basis.
I block all cookies by default. Then when a web site needs one, I switch my preference that site through Tools :: Cookie Manager. Once in a while I then view my stored cookies, click the checkmark next to “prevent removed site to set a cookie in future” and delete.
And then there was doubleclick owned by google powering your gmail running google analytics in the background and our privacy efforts went down the drain. But that’s another story.
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Heh, there’s some irony going on here, with your article promoting privacy, yet the current big-time data-rapist gets another feeding: Facebook.
There are (were, cheers Adblock) multiple items on this page that looked to pretty much uniquely identify me with FB, via facebook.com and their content distribution network. Fuck knows what they can tell if you enable javascript, accept cookies, send referers, or have a facebook account.
This thing, for example:
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.menyhart.net%2Fsoftware%2Fseamonkey-cookies%2F&layout=standard&show_faces=false&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=35&_fb_noscript=1
From the above URL FB can tell exactly what site I am looking at, and what page, and tell I don’t allow javascript. If I had slack cookie settings, and was a facebook user, FB would know I had been here whether I clicked like or not.
These like buttons, and other FB shit is all over the web these days, and they seem much worse than Google – although is that opinion just the consequences of Google’s PR?
These entities want to know about us so that they can make adverts that are more psychologically convincing. They want to make us accept social and political messages that we may otherwise reject. Giving any data to these people just maintains the status quo of the world. And that status quo means things like the recent world financial collapse was purely the consequence of the actions of a relative few individuals. The same kind of individuals who invested 500mill in Facebook. Those people are not any of your friends, and you definitely don’t want them to be the middlemen to your friends.