Tracking Cookies on Ubuntu

[Nils Kassube]

Marc wrote:
> 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.

Excuse me but how are cookies related to viruses?

> > 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.

Remember, for Linux there are many more browsers than for Windows. Such 
a program would have to know about the place where cookies are stored 
for all of the browsers. Otherwise it would be pretty useless, IMHO.

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

Depending on the sites you want to read it may be more useful to accept 
cookies but treat all of them as session cookies.


Nils