On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Arthur Cordell wrote:
> Tell us how to do this. I am on Firefox. Right. on the menu bar, go Tools > Options > Privacy > then in the pulldown "Remember History" select "Use custom settings" which reveals a check box "Accept cookies". Now, you don't really want to deny cookies as this tends to break things - sites can tell their cookies aren't getting written, and sometimes get snippy about it. So, if you never go to any sites where you need to enter passwords, or save your place on a forum you read, or other useful reasons to keep score of your relationship with a website, you can just select, under the "Keep Until" pulldown, "I close Firefox", which sets all cookies as session only. However, if you have some sites which you need to store cookies for, like online banking, web fora, etc, it is best to select "ask me every time". This requires a little bit of attention. The box which comes up has a check box in it which says "do this every time". Then, what you do is go to each of the sites which you want to allow cookies for, and check "do this every time", and select "allow" in the box. That sets the correct configuration for those sites. You must then leave "ask me" turned on, and you will find you get a flurry of allow? boxes the first time you visit many sites, but after responding "allow for session" for all these requests you rarely get many on subsequent visits. With this option selected, the browser keeps a lookup file of which setting applies for which website. If you go back to the "Keep Until" menu and change it to any other setting, you will lose this file, and will have to build a new one. Another way of dealing with sites where you want to allow cookies, is to create a separate User Profile for your browser, in which you have cookies left at the default (allow till expired), but only run it up when you need to visit those sites (but don't use it for anything else), and have your regular browser set for session cookies via the "I close Firefox" selection. -Pete > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of pete > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 5:52 PM > To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Escaping the Filter Bubble | World Future Society > > > Surely all savvy surfers have their cookies set for "allow for session". > This was pretty much a reflex action back when the web was new. ...I > wonder how the demographics for cookie settings break down now. > > -Pete > > On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Robert Stennett wrote: > > > > > > > http://www.wfs.org/content/escaping-filter-bubble > > > > > > Escaping the Filter Bubble > > > > > > in > > > Sci/Tech > > > World Affairs > > > By Eli Pariser > > > > > > The former executive director of MoveOn.org warns that more- > > > personalized Internet searching may have hidden side effects. > > > > > > > > > ELI PARISER > > > Photo Credit: Jen Campbell > > > With little notice or fanfare, the digital world is fundamentally > > > changing. What was once an anonymous medium where anyone could be > > > anyonewhere, in the words of the famous New Yorker cartoon, nobody > > > knows youre a dogis now a tool for soliciting and analyzing our > > > personal data. According to one Wall Street Journal study, the top > > > fifty Internet sites, from CNN to Yahoo to MSN, install an average > > > of 64 data-laden cookies and personal tracking beacons each. Search > > > for a word like depression on Dictionary.com, and the site installs > > > up to 223 trackers tracking cookies and beacons on your computer so > > > that other Web sites can target you with antidepressants ads. > > > > > > ..... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
