Most browsrs can be set to ask whenever a website
wants to set a cookie, but I have never seen any
indication from a browser or from LS when a website
wants to read a cookie. Is there any way LS could
produce an alert when a website is trying to read
a cookie?
Could: Theoretically yes.
Does: No.
Little Snitch could eavesdrop all communication going out and see,
if a cookies gets transmitted.
But whether a website (or webserver) actually _reads_ a cookie, can
not really be determined - you can only say, whether it gets
_transmitted_. But that again is an easy to answer question:
_Every_ cookie stored for a domain, will be transmitted to (and
only to) that domain _every_ single time a page from that domain is
fetched. So if you don't want them to _read_ the cookie, you must
not allow them to _write_ (set) them - and that is under your
control already.
Actually this is a very smart answer.
Sometimes, however, you need to allow cookies in order to use a
website for example to order some products.
If you do not want to get tracked next time you visit the website you
just have to delete the cookies right after you ordered.
Best regards
Martin
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