[LegendsOfBatman]

I've been disabling 1st and 3rd party cookies since 97 or 98. Never have run into a problem. Well, usually not a problem.
I have never trusted cookies, never will, for most sites. They can be a convenience, and they can be a hassle. Certain sites I allow to remain on my system. Most, however, I refuse and/or eliminate before I even start browsing.
What has become extremely annoying, and I wish I could find a way to block them, is the MS variety pack of cookies. Included in this lil shop of horrors is zune, msn, bing, windowsmarketplace (tell me this is not for tracking; what other POSSIBLE reason is there for windowsmarketplace to leave a cookie?) live and now a new one today, atdmt.
How i clear these annoying pieces of crap out is using CCleaner. Thanks to MS and their jackassonian ways, I have to now leave this running all the time. CCleaner has a nifty little feature I wish they would improve upon. It is a cookie eraser. It lets you choose which cookies to allow and which to delete. I wish they would make a cookie blocker. (IE cookie and domain blocking will NOT block the MS variety pack. Personally, I think this should be illegal, because they have no right forcing their cookies on us.
Btw, I know someone will ask how I know they are placing these cookies at startup. Quite simple. My start page is set for blank. Therefore, NO cookies should be written to my system).
Since I have been doing things this way for many years, it's second nature. But, I really do wish they would allow us better control over cookies. I refuse to buy into anyone's "Oh cookies are safe" crap, because once upon a time, they said they couldn't track us, and now they say they can.
What will they tell us next?


[quote=Nimmer;1260152]Everything that you say makes sense to me. However, it doesn't seem like
that was the way that it used to work. It's an annoyance when I site
notifies you that you have to have cookies enabled to use their site. They
quite often tell you how to enable cookies -- though they will rarely tell
you how to do it just for their domain. The big problem is when the site
just doesn't work right and then doesn't tell you why. This makes my wife's
blood pressure shoot through the roof.

I'll experiment with disabling 3rd party cookies and see what happens.

Thank you.