Richard C. Steffens wrote: > An article in yesterday's USA Today (USA Yesterday?) described tracking > done by various web sites using cookies. It focused on Facebook in > particular and talked about the various ways Facebook tracks visitors to > a Facebook site. My understanding is that this is only possible through > the use of cookies -- at least for those not logged in to Facebook. > > So, if I visited a Facebook page I'm supposed to have been given a > cookie that will in some way track my web travels. I think it's > something to do with whether or not the pages I visit have a Facebook > connection on them, but I don't really know those details. > > What I'd like to know is how I can inspect individual cookies to > determine where they came from. It appears that I can "manage" my > Firefox cookies by clicking on Tools > Clear Recent History ... . I have > only a few options. I can choose the time frame to clear, and I can > choose the category of thing to clear, cookies being one of the categories. > > I don't want to clear all the cookies. I want to look at the collection, > which now appears to be kept with sql-lite. > > 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?
There is also Ghostery. http://www.ghostery.com This gets at the non-cookie tracking tricks used by sites. Rod -- > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
