Tracking Cookies on Ubuntu

[Marc]

Sense Hofstede schreef:
> Hello,
>
> Linux is well-known for being a safe operating system and its users
> usually don't have to worry about anti-virus programs if they aren't
> running a mail server.
>
> There are indeed very few -- close to no-- virusses active for Linux.
> However, cookies are platform independant and can be safed at all
> platforms if a browser that supports cookies is being used.
> The greatest part of the result list of programs like Spybot S&D
> consists of tracking cookies. So on Windows you can track them down
> and remove them. In Ubuntu however, there is no such program available
> and the tracking cookies keep living happily in your browser for
> eternity if you visit the right website often enough.
>
>   

You set "cookies off" in firefox, is it that simple??

Marc

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