On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:01:20 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote: > >And did I mention that there are several sites that want to set cookies? >Like news.bbc.co.uk? Or safebrowsing.clients.google.com? Or >pt200204.unica.com? Need I mention that IBM must have invited one of these >sites into the HTTPS (note the "s") connection? Why is IBM spying on me? >(IBM has about 16 (yes, sixteen!!!!) cookies from www.ibm.com plus some 16 >more from www-946 (or some other number) cookies already! > >And I NEVER use google for searching, and I haven't ever visited any BBC web >site that I know of. No other browser session was open when those cookies >were requested. >
It's not IBM, it's Firefox: news.bbc.co.uk: delete "Latest Headlines" (or other "live bookmarks") from your bookmark folder/toolbar http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/livebookmarks.html safebrowsing.clients.google.com: Firefox uses Google's "Safe Browsing API" http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/ Uncheck "Block reported attack sites/web forgeries" in Tools -> Options -> Security "Ghostery" (FF plug-in) blocks unica (and other tracker sites) Norbert Friemel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
