Who would have thought it

[tinyjo]

I'm actually about to praise IE6! And for it's privacy functions at that! I downloaded this today and discovered while surfing for clipart that it actually comes set to refuse third party cookies that you haven't specifically requested and you can set it to block first party ones you haven't requested as well. When it does this, it has a little icon in the bottom taskbar that you can click to see what the cookie is and search for the privacy policy of the site in question. Then if you want to, you can accept the cookie after all! Pretty good for capitalist pig dogs!

Comments

[jinty]

What's a third party cookie versus a first party cookie? And how does you know whether you've requested it or not?

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

A third party cookie is a cookie set by a server/domain other than the one you're connected to - e.g. ad servers. This doesn't prevent all ad server cookies, but it does catch quite a few of them by the look of it.

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

In fact, it's even better than I thought. I've now set it so that it blocks all 3rd party cookies and pops up a prompt for first party ones (and you can set per site exceptions to this if you want, or choose to have your decision apply to the whole site). Woohoo!