Scarlettrunner20 wrote:I have several cracked ribs ...
...you've been reading through some of your old posts again, eh?
Scarlettrunner20 wrote:I can also block all cookies from Fx Options but NOT in real time
Think outside the box and block them all by default and then allow just the ones you want. If people had not made assumptions then I would have gone into more detail on that.
Scarlettrunner20 wrote:ssive ways AFTER THE FACT.
There is no AFTER THE FACT. Within nanoseconds of visiting a website your IP and device details are recorded in the logs (don't forget I have websites, so none of this is theory). The initial cookie/s just takes these details, also often the page you are visiting, and adds a unique identifier (Client or User) to those details. That's it. Thus, that cookie can be deleted/blocked AFTER THE FACT and the site will still have your IP and device details, but can do nothing with that original cookie because it contained, er, nothing. Unless blocked from doing so, once deleted all the site can do is to reissue another cookie with a
brand new Unique Identifier and so on...
The 'danger' with 1st party cookies is not with the initial cookies, but with the persistence of them across different sessions, which is how a tracking history/user profile is built up. So, it doesn't matter if they are deleted before/during/after they are set just so long as they are deleted and not allowed to persist, i.e. -
Delete initial cookie 5 minutes later = No AFTER THE FACT
Delete cookie 3 months down the line = AFTER THE FACT
In either case, the site will still have your IP and device details. Incidentally, my websites set no cookies as I allow no ads at all. However, law enforcement agencies could still compel me to hand over the visitor IP/device logs (which is why I routinely delete the logs)
Quick novice Cookie 'How To' -
In Options/Preferences -
#1. Block Third Party Cookies. (be aware that some bank sites do require these to be enabled)
#2. Set Cookies to 'Allow for Session'/'Expire when I close..'
#3. Set Private Data/Custom Settings to clear Cookies and optionally Cache, on Exit. (use, if required, Ctrl + Shift + Delete during session.)
#4. Use Page Info (Ctrl + i) to adjust cookie permissions for individual sites, if so required.
There can be more to it than that, but do the above and you can set this stuff, forget about it and the world will not end. Good to know if you use multiple profiles/different browsers/have better things to do.
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Whatever else you do, just don't ever get into this position
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Scarlettrunner20 wrote:The badly coded sites try upwards to 100 times (that is a LOT of clicking and yes I have actually counted that many clicks on a few sites) to get you to accept their cookies.....
....I have never given in though....I have clicked until my fingers were half numb but the sites always finally give up trying to set cookies.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (attrib.)
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