Research To "Reveal the Unseen World of Cookies"

Posted by Unknown on Monday April 16, 2012 @03:20AM from the submit-cookies-for-cia-inspection dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Guardian newspaper has teamed up with Mozilla to research the monitoring of online behavior through cookies and other web trackers. After downloading the Collusion add-on for Firefox, you can generate a visual representation of all the cookies that have been downloaded which are linked to the sites you have visited. This shows quite an interesting picture. The Guardian staff then want the data from Collusion to be uploaded to their site, after which they say 'we can build up a picture of this unseen world. When we've found the biggest players, we'll start tracking them back — finding out what data are they monitoring, and why.'"

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How to get rid of them by GameboyRMH · 2012-04-16 03:30 · Score: 5, Informative

On Firefox, disable HTML5/DOM storage, install CookieMonster 1.5 and BetterPrivacy.

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"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Cookieculler by MLCT · 2012-04-16 03:37 · Score: 5, Informative

Bit of a shoutout for the firefox extension cookieculler.

I have never found anything that matches cookieculler for features: it doesn't just purely delete cookies, it operates with a white-list based system (the way everything on the web should work). Cookieculler deletes all cookies each time you close the browser, except the ones you have whitelist "protected", that keep login information etc. as you choose.

Along with noscript, cookieculler is the main reason I stay on firefox.