Please, if two or more of you I.T. experienced persons will give me a down to earth solution for this. I went and turned off the automatic "Cookie" register. Now, I am having to click "Cancel" time after time, to a Cookie warning. Some state they will pursue me for ten years!! Must I keep clicking "Cancel" from this barrage from Hell? My fingers will fall off! Please help, if you can.

-- Freaking Cookie (Boxes@drivingmenuts.com), February 09, 2000

Answers

This is like "all the questions you wanted to know but were too embarrassed to ask." Make that two people who need to know this information! Just installed Communicator and the boxes are pursuing me. I don't know if I want them or not. Are they necessary? Good? Bad? And while I am exposing my abysmal ignorance, why, do I get the "Ask Jeeves" page instead of "Netcenter" as I did on our son's computer? I don't want to ask Jeeves anything. I just want him to go away.

-- Pam (jpjgood@penn.com), February 09, 2000.

>> I went and turned off the automatic "Cookie" register. Now, I am having to click "Cancel" time after time ... <<

Congratulations! You now have a direct window onto what Web sites have your best interests at heart! Damn few of them, aren't there?

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), February 09, 2000.

I use Internet Explorer, and I disabled cookies useage. I got tired of all the requests to put cookies on my system. I also got Guard Dog to enhance privacy and clean up my tracks on the Net.

Some will say that cookies are harmless, and some will say that they are a problem. I don't like the idea of someone's computer fooling around in my hard drive, so I refuse the cookies.

-- Bill (billclo@blazenet.net), February 09, 2000.

Well after today, I think cookies could be very bad, since hackers can use cookie from your computor address to hack in to others on the sites you visit. Just go dump your cookies every time you have been on the net.

-- ET (bneville@zebra.net), February 09, 2000.

And how do you dump your cookies eacg time? I haven't figured out how to get to the place in my hard drive to dump them. Quick course please? Thanks.

-- ~~~~ (~~~@~~~.xcom), February 09, 2000.

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001w6S

Found this in the archives on "cookies."

-- cookies 4 you (cookies4youu@cookies4youuu.xcom), February 09, 2000.

If you are in indows 95 or 98 go to explorer to windows highligt go down to all the files until you find cokies open, highlight and go to delete and then delete.

-- ET (bneville@zebra.net), February 10, 2000.

To disable cookies:

Click Start

Settings

Control Panel

Internet Options(Internet Properties)

Security Tab

Custom Level

Scroll down to Cookies and click Disable.

-- Kyle (midtnbuddy@juno.com), February 10, 2000.

To Dump Cookies you already have:

Click Start

Setting

Internet Options(Properties)

General

Settings

View Files

Click Edit

Select All

Click File

Delete

I just followed these two procedures just now. Now I have to type in my name and Email in response field. So wait to hear from someone else before you do this. I have the thingy enabled that as soon as I type a letter or two a drop down box appears and I can click without typing the whole thing out.

The cookie thing is something I am interested in hearing about from you guys who know more about it. I don't.

-- Kyle (midtnbuddy@juno.com), February 10, 2000.

Everyone whould try turning off automatic cookie acceptance. It really makes a difference in your attitude toward many sites!

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), February 10, 2000.

Best cookie solution on the web, combined with a bunch of other excellent utilities...

Link

It ACCEPTS all cookies, just won't let them be READ back. That way you never get bugged about accepting cookies. < vbg >

Best of all, it is free for now.

PS - I have no connection with the company, just one happy user.

-- John (jh@NotReal.ca), February 10, 2000.

Re: Naviscope

I should have added that you can bypass any of the restrictions (including cookies) for as many specific sites as you desire.

-- John (jh@NotReal.ca), February 10, 2000.

If you have Netscape, as someone said on the other thread, you can select: Edit, Preferences, Advanced and you get a menu of three choices regarding cookies.

I usually select "Disable Cookies", but if you're making an internet purchase, or if you're using a password to get onto a site, you usually have to choose "Accept only cookies that get sent back to the originating server". Then you can immediately disable cookies again. It becomes a habit pretty quick.

OTOH, personally I don't believe you can hide from the government. But how and why do they decide to go after you, among all the people out there? Anonymity is my protection (I'm not important or highly placed), and I feel quite secure in my unimportance unless groups I belong to (such as Bible-believing-Christians) are systematically targeted, in which case there is plenty of evidence to convict me apart from electronic information anyway.

"The Running Man" or "America's Most Wanted" method of identification, for example. "Report any suspected Christians by calling this number, and if your report leads to a conviction, you will receive a reward." This method could be used against any group whose persecution were currently politically correct.

You probably already know this, but if you do get an unsolicited email, you should not respond, even to ask them not to send you any more messages. According to our provider, some groups (especially porn-marketers) randomly send out messages, and when someone responds to request to be taken off their list, all that happens is they confirm that that is a valid address. Of course, they don't take you off.

-- S. Kohl (kohl@hcpd.com), February 10, 2000.