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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 11:13 PM EDT |
have cookie clearing functions.
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Authored by: ailuromancy on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 12:06 AM EDT |
The handy piece of jargon is 'session cookie', which is a cookie that
is
deleted when the browser terminates. Lots of browsers have a
'treat all cookies
as session cookies' option. Midori has a delete cookies
after one
hour/day/week/month/year button. This is the first time I have
heard of the
button being on by default.
If you want some real insanity, EU law
requires web sites to show
a cookie opt in/out message to new users until they
make a decision.
So, what if I say no to cookies - how is that information
recorded so
I do not have to have the cookie question continually wasting space
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- Session cookies - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 07:06 AM EDT
- Session cookies - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 03:32 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 09:46 AM EDT |
Why shouldn't the settings be off by default and you enable specific cookies
for a particular site?
Under your own logic:
It shouldn't be beyond
the wit of man to enable a session cookie for a particular on-line
ebusiness
Core security principles start with:
Deny everything, enable
what needs to be
Following that principle:
you only install the ftp
server on your computer if you need to ftp into your computer from
external
Of course, MS for years preferred the opposite security
principle:
Allow everything, deny what needs to be
As a
result:
Install ftp server and telnet server (and a host of others) ensuring
anonymous access without a password is allowed....
This is a core reason
why Microsoft security still fails miserably today - Microsoft doesn't
understand the core security principles.
Privacy - proper privacy -
requires the same core principles. Without proper security you have no privacy.
Without proper privacy, you've given up a good deal of security. So, the core
principle on privacy:
Deny everything by default, enable that which is
needed.
I don't really care whether the trackers agree with me. It's not
their privacy that they want to invade. It's mine. They don't get to demand
what privacy I have to give up. I get to say what privacy I'm willing to
relinquish. All they get to do is:
Ask me what privacy I'm willing to
relinquish and accept that which I allow them to have access to!
So yes, in
a sense I agree with you:
The user should have the intelligence to clean up
their local files to sufficiently handle their privacy.
But, a the same
time:
The user should also have the intelligence to realize their privacy is
theirs to protect and that includes deciding what privacy to grant in the first
place! To understand why privacy/security should be enabled by default with the
explicit decrease in privacy/security required after that.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 12:11 PM EDT |
I do run a script that purges cookies at logout.
Firefox has had that as one of the standard cookie options for
as long as I can remember. In Firefox 20:
- go to
"preferences"
- then "privacy"
- and then set "history" to "use
custom settings for history"
- When you do this, a new set of cookie
options will appear.
- Then make sure that "accept cookies from sites" is
set on. This will enable still more options.
- Set "keep until" to "I
close Firefox".
You can turn third party cookies off while still
keeping second party (the site you are actually visiting) cookies. You can also
individually white list which sites are allowed to set cookies. All of these are
standard options and have been in Firefox for some time now.
I normally
just turn cookies off and just turn them on when I need to log into a specific
site. When I log out of that site, I clear all cookies (there is another
standard button for this - you can also clear individual cookies if you want).
Firefox has for as long as I can recall been very easy to use when it comes to
managing cookies (certainly easier than any other browser that I've tried).
P.S. I find that when I turn off cookies web sites seem to load much
faster. I assume that what is happening is that when all the cookie requests get
refused, my computer doesn't waste time uploading and downloading dozens of
cookies. I just did a test and visited a web site that I often use with cookies
turned on. A single page load from that site caused 36 third party cookies to be
set. That's 3 dozen cookie requests for just one page. That's not a trivial
amount of communications taking place.
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