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Accepting Cookies from Only One Site on the Web?

Posted by Cliff on from the only-one-hand-in-the-cookie-jar dept.

Greyfox asks "With the new /. system in place, I want to accept cookies from /., but I still don't care to get them from the rest of the Internet. Is it possible to set Netscape up to do this and if not is there some proxy server out there that will do it for me, perhaps filtering cookies from every site that's not on a list specified in a config file? "

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  1. Junkbusters should do the trick... by elitaylor · · Score: 2
    Junkbusters has a great proxy that will allow you to reject all cookies except for the domains you choose.

    I had it set up to reject all cookies except those from /. and the New York Time's website.

    The documentation is pretty self-explanatory, but if you have problems, drop me a line.

  2. Use AtGuard under Windows by Paul+Johnson · · Score: 2
    I run Windows NT and 98 (for various good and valuable reasons), and I use AtGuard to do this. It blocks cookies, referer, from and browser fields on a site-by-site basis, and also acts as a firewall and ad-blocker. Oh, and it can re-write animated gifs to stop after one iteration.

    Paul.

    --
    You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different.
  3. Re:easiest solution by reverse+solidus · · Score: 3

    Most every time you get a banner ad, it comes from one of the big advertising sites. That means that the http GET header returns a cookie for that site. Advertisers can build up a database, based on cookies, of exactly which sites you view. Combined with a filled out registration form from any of the ad network's sites, this means they know who you are and exactly what you are viewing. Some people don't really care, others
    consider it all very creepy.

    Note that if it were just an individual advertiser, it wouldn't really matter. But the advertisers have banded together into networks so that nearly every banner ad comes from just one of a few central sites. Also, individual ad networks can share information, building up a more complete profile. You have no say in this.

    That's why you'll hear people talk about good cookies and evil cookies. Good cookies (like slashdot's) help you, evil cookies give away private information (like your surfing habits) without your knowledge or consent.