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To: Openurmind

Is it not just as simple to delete cookies after webbing or prevent cookie storage to begin with?


10 posted on 11/03/2019 12:06:32 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: SgtHooper

Unfortunately it’s not that simple anymore. They are becoming pretty sophisticated, they can install something permanent into your system simultaneously as the cookie loads into your temp file. Or just copy one image file as “Save as” and there it is. And there is a LOT of “cross scripting” out there now.

You can try to stop cookies or delete them, but the cookies are becoming smarter than the cookie blockers and the blockers do not even see them as they load. The last 6 months I have noticed that even with my strict script blocker they have scripts that it sees, but it doesn’t register them in the list so that I can block them. Some are smarter than even the script blockers.

The advantage I have for those that do make it past my script blocker is the protection of Linux as an OS. This is one of the advantages of Linux over Windows. It is pretty darn hard if not almost impossible for things like this to make any system changes or install themselves without my knowledge and approval.


11 posted on 11/03/2019 12:22:19 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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