I completely agree Eric. I use a program on the PC called GuardDog.
Use to be by Cybermedia, now McAfee. It has a very nice cookie
management system for doing the same. I didn't want to mention this
for the advertising effect. I really like the idea of
your cookie.jar though. Nicely thought out and open source too.
I'll give it a try later today. Dave, you might want to consider
telling folks about this.
Mark
At 10:03 AM -0800 2/3/00, Eric Murray wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 09:37:30AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
>> >>Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 16:29:23 -0800
>> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >>From: Mark Laubach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >>Subject: just do it yourself doubleclick opt_out
>> >>
>> >>[Verified direction. Use this one from inconvenient.net.]
>> >>
>> >>I just surfed www.doubleclick.net and descended down to the opt out
>> >>option and it seemed to work ok. Maybe they changed the link so
>> >>people would have to go diving at their site?
>> >>
>> >>Anyway, you can opt out of doubleclick with your text editor. Follow
>> >>these directions to edit your cookie file.
>> >>
>> >>I did the opt out from doubleclick earlier this week. Here's the replaced
>> >>line in my Netscape 4.7 cookie file from my Powerbook:
>> >>
>> >>.doubleclick.net TRUE / FALSE 1920499172
>>id OPT_OUT
>
>[info on how to edit doubleclick cookies from Netscape
>cookie files deleted]
>
>Unfortunately that won't help you protect your identity from
>the other sites besides Doubleclick which track users.
>Are you going to opt out of every new one that springs up (if
>they even offer the option to do so)?
>
>What you need to do is to block all cookies except from sites that you
>want to accept cookies from. You can do this in Netscape by turning on
>the "ask me before accepting a cookie" option but since many
>cookie-using sites send a cookie for every HTTP connection (and they
>make a lot), you wind up having to click "no" 20 or 50 times for every
>page. Obviously no one will actually do that, so people wind up
>accepting all cookies.
>
>Robert Krawitz and I wrote a program called "cookie jar" which lets you
>reject all cookies except those from sites that you want to accept
>cookies from. You don't have to click on anything, once it's set up
>it's automatic. It also lets you reject web pages, which is handy for
>blocking banner ads. It'll filter out scripts (i.e. javascript and
>activeX) and will block your browser from sending identifying info to
>servers. It's an open source project written in perl, contributions are
>welcome.
>
>http://www.lne.com/ericm/cookie_jar/
>
>
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