Eat Your Cookies - Comments Page 1

Excellent article! Cookies have never worried me, but for those that are bothered by them, this lets them know that there really is nothing to worry about. ~Dan~

Agree with what you say about cookies Bob, but I'm not so sure about Yahoo.com's web beacons. I disabled it, but you have to really dig to find out how to disable the thing...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Another red herring, in my opinion...

I've been pleased with "Cookie Pal" from Kookaburra software [ www.kburra.com ] to manage my cookies when using Internet Explorer. It lets you select sites to allow/block and lets you see the cookies you've received, their contents, and expiration dates. Cookie Pal also works with Netscape and Opera, but not Firefox. (Firefox has this capability without an add-on.)

There is an extension for Firefox called AnEC Cookie Editor that's useful. It allows you to easily view, edit, and delete cookies. If you are skeptical (a good thing IMHO) and want to see for yourself who uses cookies and what they contain, give AnEC Cookie Editor a try.

I have heard that after closing your bank account you should delete cookies [i do it] !!why would you have opition? the banks and HP tell you to do it!!

EDITOR'S NOTE: I can't see the logic in this. Only the site that set a cookie can "see" it -- and ONLY if you visit that website. So if you close an account, then (1) You aren't likely to go back to that site, and (2) the data in the cookie becomes worthless anyway.

I agree with Pat about the use of Kookaburra software. It's much better than anything else that I have tried or seen. However, I do use it with Firefox, since I like it better than the built-in controls. Works just fine, BTW.

I also have Cookie Pal v1.7c and have been using it for years. However, recently I've found that many websites won't load with that program enabled, even when I allow cookies for that website! Darn annoying. I've been thinking about just not loading CP any more and using the IE cookie option. My only concern with cookies is the clutter!

EDITOR'S NOTE: Clutter? IE puts all your cookies in one folder.

Great simplified info on cookies! I would like to know how "Richard 22nd February 2006 04:44PM" got Firefox to work with www.kburra.com 's CookiePal? I've tested out quite a few cookie programs and I like CookiePal the most but it doesn't work with Firefox. I sent Kburra an email at the end of last year when I was switching over to Firefox and Kburra said it was not possible to get CookiePal to work with Firefox (although their own website says "...and can be customized by the user to work with most other Internet software which uses cookies..." They did say they were working on a new version of Cookiepal which would work with Firefox but that was a while ago ...

how do i disable my cookies so i am able to acsess certain websites thankyou

EDITOR'S NOTE: I don't understand how having cookies ENABLED would keep you from accessing a website. I've seen the opposite problem, though. Can you explain further?

Nice article- quite informative. But can anyone tell me about how to make a cookie file read only. i tried to change the file type to read only by checking the read-only box in the properties windows. but once again the file type gets changed back on its own.