Tracking Cookies on Ubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

Nils Kassube wrote:

> 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?

Be fair - he didn't say that cookies _are_ viruses, and you can relate just
about anything if you try.  In this case, viruses are an attack on my
property, and cookies can be an attack on my privacy.  To the security
conscious, cookies _are_ a greater threat than viruses on Linux systems.
> 
>> > 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.

No, it would just be slow.  We have the advantage over Windows in that we
have always identified the type of a file by its contents.
> 
>> 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.

Yes
-- 
derek