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Some time ago, someone posted a link to http://technoerotica.net/mylog/optouts.html. (It sounds like a porn site, but it isn’t.) It has lots of opt-out cookies, many of which I downloaded.
Although I delete (and restore selected) cookies at startup with Delindex, since I have used these opt-out cookies, AdAware has NOT been turning up any new entries!
However some opt-out cookies (the X-10 spy camera for example) expires in 30 days. I used Karen’s Cookie Viewer, and found some of my cookies didn’t expire for years or even decades! Every cookie has 1, 2, or 3 sets of 5 lines of numbers; I found one that didn’t expire until 11/9/2030, and, using a text editor, replaced as many sets as there were in each opt-out cookie with these 5 lines of numbers:
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1468938752
31583413
1632926976
29462669Now all my opt-opt cookies will expire in 2030, long after many of these companies are out of business!
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Computing.net is where each of us helps all of us to move the goal posts.
Exept of these opt-out cookies I found very useful a Registry Settings file from here
http://grc.com/cb-faq.htm#privacy-cookies
(scroll down the page) called nasties.reg.
It puts in the restricted sites in the IE
all the "bad" ones and you don't receive a single cookie from them.
You can add 2-3 that are not there manually
(fastclick..) After this ,in my PC, Ad-aware very rarely finds something.
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Ok, this is simple. Get IE 6.x and you can ban 3rd party cookies. Don't need any extra software. I can surf all day and go to some of the other web sites I prefer, not talking about porn but adult related sites I enjoy and ignore their cookies all day long.
So I can read interesting stuff without another program. I don't even know why I have Ad-Aware because it never finds a single thing.
Laters,
KTTD
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Yeah,get IE6,and risk screwing up things just to block a few cookies.No thanx,Kevin.
You can rag on me later...
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Since I don't want to add anything to my registry (isn't there too much junk in it already?) I'll stick with the opt-out method.
How easy is it to opt-out of (undo) the registry tweaks? For something as temoprary as cookies and dot.coms, why would you do that?
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To TheKid :
Do you know if IE-SPYAD add more sites from the reg file from grc I was talking?
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Renaissance Man,if you add or delete sites
from the restricted ones you are modifying
the registry.
I think you can delete them
manually from there anytime you want.
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I looked in my cookie folder and have 6+index
It hasn’t grown any for a while, but I have IE6 set with ZApro, PestPatrol(running stealth)and SystMechanic.
So all up I'm running pretty clean.
If The BOMB went off I think this machine and the cockroaches would be the only things standing :-)
Jim.
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Georges
I did the same a The Kid a while ago and it works great.
The file you download lists spyware vendors and places them into restricted sites.
You could put them in manually if you could be bothered and had a spare day or so.
The outcome is the same as RM's method but 100 times more simple.
Wether you use RM's method or the download you won't be dissapointed.ASE
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