Tracking Cookies on Ubuntu

[David Gerard]

2009/3/29 Marc <marcsje at fulladsl.be>:
> Sense Hofstede schreef:

>> 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??


Or tell the user to switch off their computer entirely, even simpler!
And about as helpful in any practical sense. Well done.

Does AdBlock include most such cookie sources in its lists?


- d.