It would be quite trivial to write a Firefox extension which prevents Javascript from writing and/or reading cookies.
--- ygrek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Mike, > > > I regularly purge tons of cookies from doubleclick, informit, > > googlesyndication, ad nauseum that have been collected even through > > privoxy. Unfortunately privoxy really should only be depended upon > as > > a SOCKS to HTTP proxy converter. It is not a reliable privacy tool > > anymore. > > Why not? It works quite well for me. If the cookie is generated by > the > server-side script or is embedded in the page (anyway it comes from > the external world) - it is surely catched by Privoxy. The other way > to get the cookie - if it is generated at the browser-side > (Javascript > etc) then Privoxy knows nothing about it ofcourse (but maybe it is > possible to somehow tune the browser to disallow cookies from > Javascripts), and the only way is to block java-scripts by url or > disallow JS fully (for some nasty sites at least). > IMHO - for the limited set of sites which one visits regularly it is > quite > easy to configure Privoxy to block ads. > > -- > Best regards, > ygrek http://ygrek.org.ua xmpp: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
