The Man Who Turned Off Cookies In Firefox Doesn't Care If It Hurts Advertisers

Business Insider ^ | 5/8/13 | Jim Edwards

[Pollster1]

Ad revenue keeps the net free.

I don't object to the presence of ads. I just am not impressed with the stuff they say we can buy to clutter our lives. If I actually need something, I'll figure that out without an anorexic/silicone-enhanced actress promoting the product. If I don't need what they're selling, then I am better off if I can find another path to fulfillment. I do follow blog links from FR often, just to give them the hits - the blogger just has to post enough that it's clear they earned the hit, and even if they post the whole commentary, I'll follow the link to give them the hit. I just don't follow online ads any more than I guide my purchases based on other ads.

[Resettozero]

Thanks again. Think I’m going to try another similar search engine for a while now.

[ChildOfThe60s]

No Script
http://noscript.net/

[Darth Reardon]

It’s under privacy, “Accept third party cookies” (at least on the two versions I have here).

[Spartan302]

I recall Dishnetwork had a real ruckus on their hands when they came out with their new “Hopper” DVr, it automatically removed all commercials from any recording.

Its rather hard to imagine an advertising free world unless you are a monk in a monastery halfway up the Himalayas.

it really pisses me off the daily intrusion, the myriads of ways they want to dominate your whole day trying to manipulate your spending, I see a revolution on the horizon, a virtual war against the out of control intrusion upon our privacy my advertisers.

Thats why I like Fr so much, ZERO advertising, Thanks again Jim for not getting on the advertising train tracks!

[sickoflibs]

I just found it on Firefox site, those options dont appear till I pick:

‘use custom settings for history’

Then they all show up on that control box.

Thanks

[TalonDJ]

it really pisses me off the daily intrusion, the myriads of ways they want to dominate your whole day trying to manipulate your spending

By getting pissed off you are letting them manipulate you in a different way. I prefer to just ignore them. I have better things to waste anger on. They don't control my spending and they don't affect my emotions either.

[jiggyboy]

I use Ghostery and I love it. I’ll see Ghostery list twenty or even thirty trackers on a single page; by ignoring them, the page comes up in half the time, or less.

[jiggyboy]

Just enable Discus by hand. Once and done.

[RobertClark]

Don’t use Google, etc.. Use this one, no cookies, no tracking, very private;

https://www.ixquick.com/

This article has nothing to do with Google or Ixquick (search engines). Using ixquick won't help you avoid cookies, it just makes your searches anonymous. Your browser allows or denies cookies as you arrive at sites, how you found the search result has nothing to do with the process. Check your browser settings, surf using a proxy, or use the Tor browser.

[Principled]

that’s what FF uses.

[Rannug]

I’ve tried Ixquick a couple of times, liked it, but it wouldn’t let me access everything I wanted.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

You’re right of course. So use ixquick proxy;

“Wherever you go, once you leave Ixquick, you can be seen, recorded, and tracked by the website you are going to, plus by all of its advertising and marketing and tracking partners and affiliates. To avoid this, you can use the Ixquick Proxy which allows you to visit third-party websites THROUGH IXQUICK without anyone, including the website and its partners, seeing you.”

[Peet]

To save the switching on/off bother, simply add Disqus to your whitelist.

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I’ll give that a try. Usually I add the site that “contains” the discussion thread to whitelist, read the comments, and then delete the site from the whitelist. Cumbersome.

Thanks for the clue! I needed one badly... :-)

[mrsmith]

Love seeing those blank ad windows!
Internet without Hostman is unusable.

Run CCleaner every few days (opt to save the cookies youwant), set up flash security correctly (the biggest hole in most people’s privacy), and the internet is reasonably private.

[discostu]

Cookies are used for a lot more than ads. The ad guys leverage them, but any place that lets you store your password (like FR) so you don’t have to manually login every time uses cookies. Most folks will just turn them back on.

[LibWhacker]

Started using it several months ago. Love it. Great add-on.

[cynwoody]

Ad revenue keeps the net free.

As it declines (and it is diving), you will see more and more pay sites.

Oh noes! Q4 2012 was only up 15% over Q4 2011!

[Peet]

Just enable Discus by hand. Once and done.

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Tested and DOES NOT work. I must whitelist the entire domain to get the discus.com crud to work.