On 11/17/2011 10:14 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:59:12 -0800
> "Richard C. Steffens"<[email protected]>  dijo:
>
>> Does anyone know of a tool that let's me inspect the cookie collection
>> and decide what to keep and what to get rid of?
> I was always of the impression that cookies are basically just text
> files. For many of them the filename is also a giveaway.

That's what I used to think, too. Seems like plain text files are no 
longer the way Firefox does it. I suppose it makes sense since it's 
probably more efficient to use a database.

> You can also tell Firefox not to accept cookies from specific sites.

I'll have to put some time into thinking about this one.

> I
> banned Amazon and Google, although the latter has figured out ways
> around it so they still insist on serving me data that they think will
> make my internet experience more useful.

Yeah. I hear you on that one.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens


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