Tracking Cookies on Ubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

David Gerard wrote:

> 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.

OK, that's maybe a little extreme, but I don't find it impractical to browse
with konqueror set to prompt before accepting cookies, and iirc Firefox can
do the same.  So I accept cookies from sites I know - and that must have
cookies for login purposes.  I never accept cookies if I don't need them to
login to a site.
-- 
derek