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www.sextracker.com cookie is not blocked with sextracker.com

Post by Guest »

Why If I block "sextracker.com" cookie then "www.sextracker.com" cookie is not blocked?
why sextracker.com doesn't block all *.sextracker.com variants?
I use Mozilla 1.7.5
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Post by Guest »

with IE if I block "dangerousSite.com" then variant like "ads.dangerousSite.com" or "server2.dangerousSite.com" are blocked, but with Mozilla NOT!!!
ByronB
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Post by ByronB »

>*.sextracker.com variants

It appears that Mozilla, like IE, doesn't allow wildcard expressions
Libra
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Post by Libra »

For IE I use IESpyads and it has a lot of *. sites listed and blocked (in the Restricted Zone).

Sincerely, Libra
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Post by Guest »

With IE the * is not necessary, because if you block thisDomain.com then automatically all *.thisDomain.com sites are blocked!
With Mozilla this is not true!
danielwang
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Post by danielwang »

does blocking ".sextracker.com" (note the leading dot) work?
ByronB
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Post by ByronB »

One of the problems with blocking the whole server.

I am a co-owner of 12 Yahoo groups, I need certain cookies to show Yahoo my status, But I don't need Yahoo's 3 rd party advertisers

If I block the whole server then my groups status is also blocked
If I accept then I also have to accept over 200 of their crapware advertisers

Mozilla gives me the choice I need


Just a different thought
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Post by Guest »

but why if you block a cookie from http://thisDomain.com using thisdomain.com filter then the cookie from http://thisdomain.com (without WWW) is not blocked? is it a bug?
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Post by Guest »

but why if you block a cookie from http://thisDomain.com using thisdomain.com filter then the cookie from http://www.thisdomain.com (with WWW) is not blocked? is it a bug?
osmium
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Location: austin, texas usa

Post by osmium »

There is some difficulty about programmatically deciding what the domain is, especially in relation to preventing/allowing cross-domain cookies. See bugs 252342 and 253974.

What Moz/FF needs, IMHO, is something that lets the user choose whether to apply settings to the subdomain only or to the whole domain. In the cookie confirmation dialog, when the user is blocking or allowing cookies, it would allow the user to choose, for example, "apply to all cookies from domainname.com" or "apply to cookies from ads.domainname.com only".

I searched for a bug on this and could not find one.
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