The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #87179 Message #1625774
Posted By: Bill D
12-Dec-05 - 02:35 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Privacy on Yahoo, etc.
Subject: RE: Tech: Privacy on Yahoo, etc.
if you have to click and reject EVERY cookie you do not want, you will have days when it seems that's all you do! I have had some sites..(like the NY Times) try to set dozens of cookies!...and they come so fast that you can't even get out before you finish reuusing them all!
A decent browser (Opera or Firefox) will allow you to set rules to ease the problem...and for those who REALLY want to control what happens when you zap around the virtual universe, you must use either something like The Proxomitron, or as just mentioned, an 'anonymizing' process...which is not always successful because some sites block the known IPs of anonymizers. Proxomitron is a way of running everything you do thru a set of 'filter rules' and preventing..or allowing..certain stuff. There are other programs which do similar things..(pop-up blocking, etc)...but none as thorough.
The set of filters I use..(written by an expert) has a special set of rules for Yahoo groups! Yahoo is well known for needing some watching!