Your misinformed attitude toward cookies (and possibly other things) is
getting in the way of your computing.
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

LegendsOfBatman wrote:
> 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?
>
>
> Nimmer;1260152 Wrote:
>> 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.
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