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Comment from thevermin8tor on 2009-11-10

2009-11-10T08:11:20Z

AnalogX Cookiewall is good,when IE or Mozilla and other cookie culling software lets some slip through,so you must delete any new entries caught within it.

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Comment from thevermin8tor on 2009-11-10

2009-11-10T08:05:00Z

I believe 'trackmenot' add on doesn't work.Gzapper 1.45 may,but to get to most sites you need to 'restore the cookie'.As google wants to track you.Vidalia/tor/privoxy does work,but to write comments on Mininova,you need to restore the cookie'as they ban you 'masked' IP address.Most other IP hiders DO NOT work.'Ninjaproxy' is ok,but an ad box may keep coming up,and it leaves some history in index.dat analyzer.

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Comment from alice on 2009-10-27

2009-10-27T15:51:05Z

I am horrified to see that an unpublished court record of a case that was dismissed, and that I was part of years ago and withdrew from has been published for all to see when my name is searched. Most of the other claimants are not. I was not even the originator of the case. Who put this infomation under my name? Why am I being tracked? How can I have this removed? This is not done to child molesters. Can you Google their name and it says CHILD MOLESTER? I think not. Is there something I can do about this? It is as if this is something personal against me and the internet is furnishing a voice against the powerless. HELP!

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Comment from Willa Cunningham on 2009-02-20

2009-02-21T03:10:41Z

I went into Explorer/Tools/Internet Options/Privacy/Sites and found a lot of advertisers listed in the "blocked" box, several of them are in Cookies, so that means blocking these cookies is not working! I can't get rid of ad.yieldmanager, it keeps coming back. I went in Internet Options and blocked third party cookies and with first party cookies checked the "prompt" box. Now, I am getting so many messages asking me if I want to allow a Cookie, I check the "block" option and it takes clicking on that 3 or 4 times before the message disappears....

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2008-02-02

2008-02-02T19:41:29Z

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Nope. The browsers keep separate cookie collections.

Leo

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Comment from Aaron Childs on 2008-01-30

2008-01-30T20:11:19Z

If I get a cookie while using Internet Explorer will it track the browsing that I do on my Firefox browser and vice-versa?

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-11-13

2007-11-13T21:53:18Z

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I've only heard it as a passing reference, but what I heard had to do with
advertiser-specific subdomains off of the parent domain. So something like
ads.somesite.com would still be allowed to place and fetch cookied information
if you allow somesite.com. As I said, my understanding is incomplete here.

Leo

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Comment from Chuck Newman on 2007-11-13

2007-11-13T15:37:03Z

Leo, you stated "...but there are apparently ways around this that allow the same kinds of information to still be collected." What are the techniques used? Or what do you think they are using?

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Comment from Tom on 2007-11-11

2007-11-11T11:42:23Z

I am currently not concerned with tracking, however it has been revealed that that government tracks personal phone calls and other private matters in the USA. With the co-operation of the ISPs, this can become a dangerous practice.

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Comment from terry coon on 2007-11-10

2007-11-11T06:08:58Z

I no longer allow CCleaner or other programs to clean out cookies. As long as everything is working OK it is just too much bother to start all over every month putting in my information in order to get another cookie. They are more useful than most users realize.

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Comment from Ken Crook on 2007-11-10

2007-11-11T05:29:37Z

Deleting all cookies deletes some that are useful, such as saved logon names so you don't have to enter them every time.

A better way is to use Karen Kenworthy's (www.karenware.com) free Cookie Viewer. Scan the list of cookies and delete any that you don't want. Any cookies that look like tracking cookies add it to the blocked cookies list in Internet Explorer/Tools/Internet Options/Privacy/Sites. So that site can never again put a cookie on your computer.

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Comment from Ray on 2007-11-04

2007-11-04T18:16:49Z

Tracking is simply not an issue for many. I run Firefox with the Adblock Plus and Permit Cookies add-ons. I rarely see online ads and all cookies from most sites are immediately removed when the browser session is closed. Further, my IP address is dynamically assigned by my ISP, changing each time my DSL modem logs in, making tracking difficult by IP address.

What I'd like to know, are there any viable alternatives to push advertising?

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Comment from Bombay Granny on 2007-11-04

2007-11-04T17:19:33Z

While I'm not sure what you mean by 'disabling' cookies, I always go to Tools in Internet Explorer, then under Delete Browing History, I delete everything there that I can, including cookies. To date, I've haven't found doing that kept any sites from working afterward. I've also deleted cookies with AVG Anti-Spyware with no problem afterward with nonworking sites. BombayGranny

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