Tracking cookies and IE

[History Fan]

I have a PC running XP Home SP2. Whenever Ad-Aware SE 1.06 finds
tracking cookies, I take note of their names and manually add them to
Internet Explorer's Privacy tab blocked sites. Then I let Ad-Aware delete
the tracking cookies it found. Is there any drawbacks to this?

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
I can't think of a drawback. I've been doing something similar for a couple
of years.

Don
[MS MVP- IE/OE]

 

[Jon Kennedy]

I agree with Don. Sounds like a good plan to me.

 

[N. Miller]

I have a PC running XP Home SP2. Whenever Ad-Aware SE 1.06 finds
tracking cookies, I take note of their names and manually add them to
Internet Explorer's Privacy tab blocked sites. Then I let Ad-Aware delete
the tracking cookies it found. Is there any drawbacks to this?

If you do that long enough, Ad Aware won't find any tracking cookies at
all!

 

[History Fan]

I have a PC running XP Home SP2. Whenever Ad-Aware SE 1.06 finds

If you do that long enough, Ad Aware won't find any tracking cookies at
all!

That would be fine with me.

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

I have a PC running XP Home SP2. Whenever Ad-Aware SE 1.06 finds
tracking cookies, I take note of their names and manually add them to
Internet Explorer's Privacy tab blocked sites. Then I let Ad-Aware delete
the tracking cookies it found. Is there any drawbacks to this?

That's the hard way. This is what I do:

In IE>Tools>Internet Options...>Privacy>Advanced

select Override automatic cookie handling

select block First-party Cookies

select block Third-party Cookies

I allow session cookies (deleted when you exit your browser).

With these settings you will not get ANY cookies stored on your computer
(except session cookies).

If you need a cookie for a particular site you will need to go into the
Privay>Sites tab and add the site.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE]

The way I use the Internet first party cookies are necessary.

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[Fuzzy Logic]

The way I use the Internet first party cookies are necessary.

As I said in my post you can simply add the site to the allow list for sites
that require first party cookies. I have about 1/2 a dozen such sites but
generally they are not necessary. The configuration I suggest doesn't allow
any cookies except for session cookies and sites that you specically allow.