Accepting Cookies from Only One Site on the Web? 15
Greyfox asks "With the new /. system in place, I want to accept cookies from /., but I still don't care to get them from the rest of the Internet. Is it possible to set Netscape up to do this and if not is there some proxy server out there that will do it for me, perhaps filtering cookies from every site that's not on a list specified in a config file? "
JunkBuster (Score:1)
You could also edit your cookie file (delete all the cookies you don't want), and rename it. Copy that version to the main cookie file every time you start your browser (use a shell script with commands like "cp -f ~/.netscape/cookies.ok ~/.netscape/cookies ; netscape" for Netscape on UNIX). This way you wouldn't have to install any software.
easiest solution (Score:1)
This eliminates the most objectionable aspects of cookies without producing any noticeable downside or loss of functionality. Some people want to get serious and eliminate all cookies, but this makes it quite difficult to participate in any sort of online commerce, which can be a hassle.
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Michael Sims
Junkbusters should do the trick... (Score:2)
I had it set up to reject all cookies except those from /. and the New York Time's website.
The documentation is pretty self-explanatory, but if you have problems, drop me a line.
KFM? (Score:1)
Use AtGuard under Windows (Score:2)
Paul.
Re:easiest solution (Score:1)
I fail to see why cookies should be generally removed anyway - as long as you're not viewing dodgy sites, what harm comes from them? Given that they're useful for slashdot, my.netscape, amazon, millions of other online-ordering places, why restrict them at all?
JunkBusters works wonderfully (Score:1)
Junkbusters [junkbusters.com]
It's pretty amazingly flexible, and runs on all (?) platforms. You've gotta feed it a huge regex file for it to work on ads, but I those are easy to find.
I haven't done exactly what you're asking for, but I expect it's possible and even trivial.
Re:easiest solution (Score:3)
consider it all very creepy.
Note that if it were just an individual advertiser, it wouldn't really matter. But the advertisers have banded together into networks so that nearly every banner ad comes from just one of a few central sites. Also, individual ad networks can share information, building up a more complete profile. You have no say in this.
That's why you'll hear people talk about good cookies and evil cookies. Good cookies (like slashdot's) help you, evil cookies give away private information (like your surfing habits) without your knowledge or consent.
Mozilla (Score:1)
Re:easiest solution (Score:1)
Windows IE 4/5 (Score:1)
Open the Internet control panel, go to Security.
1) (Optional) Change the security level of
"Trusted Sites" to the default, which is
medium security.
2) Add the site you want to accept cookies
from to the "Trusted Sites".
Face it, Netscape stinks compared to IE in all but maybe two features, which I couldn't even name. I s'pose Netscape's browser only makes (loses?) money by those stupid popups, while MS makes money from the cost of Windows. Congratulations to JWZ [jwz.org] for both mentioning that Communicator stinks [jwz.org], and for leaving the project altogether [jwz.org].
You might think this is a flame/troll/whatever, but face it, netscape does kinda suck, and I've got some backing on that notion above -- I feel kind of cranky since I'm out of cigarettes, too...
My $0.02
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Lynx? (Score:1)
Re:Lynx? (Score:1)
Lynx is, quite possibly, my favorite piece of free software. Definitely in the top three, up there with GNU Privacy Guard.
Re:Mozilla (Score:1)