Cookies are needed on many Internet sites. They are however also used for tracking purposes to track the movement of Internet users and can pose a privacy risk as they might reveal websites that the user visited in the past.
Most web browsers offer a basic cookie management module that can be used to delete some [...]
How To Whitelist Cookies And Delete The Rest Regularly
Display Detailed Flash Cookies Information With Flash Cookies View
Regular readers might have already come to the conclusion that this review is about a Nirsoft application; And they are right. Flash Cookies View is another quality Nirsoft application that can be used to display detailed information about the stored flash cookies on the computer system the software is executed on.
Take a look at our [...]
Internet Explorer: Expired Cookie Remover
Internet Explorer handles cookies differently than other web browsers. It stores cookies on the local hard drive and leaves traces behind even if cookies have already expired. The usual reaction to expired cookies should be to remove them as they are not of use anymore. Cookies might be stored on a computer system even if [...]
Internet Advertising: Opt-Out Of Behavioral Targeting
There are many forms of Internet advertising that you encounter. One that has raised privacy concerns in the past is the so called behavioral targeting that is being used to track and analyze user behavior to display relevant ads to them. Many users feel that this is a invasion of their privacy and want to [...]
Protect your privacy from Google AdSense’s new behavioral ads
Google recently launched behavioral targeted ads for AdSense. This means AdSense displays adverts not only on the context of the webpage, but on the context of your browsing history. The aim is to provide more relevant and efficient adverts, but tracking cookies being used across hundreds of thousands of websites raises obvious privacy issues, as [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 29th, 2009
- Comments: 6
Leave No Trace in KDE with Sweeper
There are many reasons why you would want to employee the aid of an application to clean up after yourself (or your users). Following this advice can save space, retain your privacy, clean up your clipboard, and clear your histories (from various applications.), and deletes cookies.
Sweeper is a KDE utility included with KDE 4.2, is [...]
Effective Secure Cookie Management
How would an effective and secure cookie management look like? Most users would probably answer that it would make use of whitelists, blacklists and temporary cookies. The whitelist would contain trusted sites that require cookies to function properly. Trust would mean that you would keep the cookies on your system even after closing the session [...]
Browser Cookie Limits
Each browser is limited cookies in two ways. The first is a per domain cookie limit that allows a single domain to only store x cookies before the oldest gets erased to make room for the new cookie. The second is an overall cookie limit which erases the oldest cookies when the limit is reached.
The [...]