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Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
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In Firefox you can whitelist cookie sources and allow per session or persistent. Far as I know it's the only browser that has it.
Otherwise I agree with JeremyBoden. Personally, I won't use a site where the owner has such low opinions of the users and calls them "dumb f***s" and "b****s".
I may ramble a bit here...I don't like fb or google however I have accounts with both. But I don't like their cookies on my main machine. I have tried to move my mail away from google so I tend to check my gmail account daily, fb less so.
I may have taken a heavy handed approach but I sporadically download the "latest and greatest" in the Fedora family. To have a look at what is going on via a VM. I allow cookies for fb or google in the VM.
I am actually interested in comments on this approach. Like, what kind of damage limitation am I actually achieving by isolating the cookies in a VM? On my main machine, my ff browser limits cookies to what I trust.
Hi,
Wow, quite a bit of reactions, seems to be a hot item
Well, I have stopped using fuckb...ehrm facebook a long while ago and I cleared all pictures from my timeline. Still, it is there to avoid someone nabbing my identity and setting up an account with my name (been done before, not nice, not destructive either, but still...)
@ frankbell
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I use startpage.com (ixquick in the UK) for my preferred search engine--been using it for years.
So do I, that and the page of Manjaro Linux, cant go wrong there
@ JeremyBoden
Never heared of duckduckgo..I'll give it a whirl
@ timl
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I am actually interested in comments on this approach. Like, what kind of damage limitation am I actually achieving by isolating the cookies in a VM?
From what I always heared, if it's in a VM it's in a padded cell... hehe
@273
Been to the page, after this post, I went out n "ixquicked" (hehe) and found this page (amongst others) to aid with the problem...
The stir is that facebook has drastiocally changed its tracking policies, and, if you were to visit say someone's fb page, or a less (yea, even less) reputable site, it leaves traces...that is messy...
Either, I set up a policy in the guest account of my PC (dont like that realy - it feels as if you tie up the guests) or figure out a way to mop the floor after the fight... hehe
Face it, facebook has those blasted buttons everywhere on sites...so..message is "dont click!" - eh, go tell that to a facebook junkie like your nephew....
Hehe
Thor
I use firefox and Self Destructing Cookies. Firefox's own preferences have cookies enabled, third party cookies enabled only for visited sites. That way, sites which require cookies are functional while I visit them. When I close their last tab or restart firefox, their cookies are cleared after some seconds. Whitelisted cookies are excluded. Self Destructing Cookies is one of the best addons of all times in my opinion. Too bad it doesn't handle IndexedDB (yet?).
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