Use something like ghostery.

https://www.ghostery.com/how-it-works


On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote:

> Welcome Friday,
>
> After comments in here a couple of weeks ago about cookies causing
> targeted ads in Google and Facebook, I went looking for a way of inspecting
> and selectively deleting cookies. I couldn't find a way to inspect cookies
> in IE10 or 11, so perhaps there is a non-obvious way I didn't stumble upon?
> So I knocked up a WinForms app with a  grid to list and delete cookies.
>
> The results are frightening! I had about 390 cookie files, most from evil,
> suspicious or incomprehensible Urls. I deleted all but a dozen that I
> confidently recognise. Lord knows how the advertisers are collaborating
> with the contents of cookies. Is there a global cookie conspiracy? I can
> see a great movie plot in this.
>
> There used to be settings in IE to select allowable cookies, but it was
> impossible to manage because you couldn't "know" the ones you'd want to
> allow, and you'd get zillions of cookie popup warnings about the barrage of
> other cookies. Maybe that facility is better now, I'll have a look. I
> suppose other browsers have better anti cookie features as well.
>
> Greg K
>



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