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 [...]

Categories: Firefox, Google, ie, Security

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, [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

You do not find many Internet cookies managers out there that let a user manage cookies from all installed browsers combined in one interface. Cookie Monster (via Madhur) is such a program. It is a portable application for Windows that recognized cookies in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera. It does work with [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, ie, Opera

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. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, ie, Opera

Cookies, or more precisely HTTP cookies, are small text files that are stored on a users computer when he visits a website that is making use of them. They can store session information, shopping cart contents, website preferences, can be used for authentication and for tracking the user. The first applications are beneficial and most [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, ie, Opera

Add N Edit Cookies is another must have firefox extension that makes it easy to add or edit cookies from within firefox. Cookies are bonded to a specific site which creates them on numerous occasions such as visiting the site, opting that your login data will be remembered or to track you while you are navigating the site. It is free to the publisher of the website which information are stored in the cookie that is created and it is lots of work to check on all cookies manually and figure out what they are doing.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Many people consider themselves to be very secure when they are surfing the internet and that very well may be true. However, there are some things that are often forgotten about. The one thing is the cookie. This is not speaking about the edible version with chocolate chips, but instead the file that a good many web sites across the internet that put onto your system that tell the site that you have visited before and what you have done.

Categories: Advice