Comments on: How to completely eliminate tracking cookies

By: charles

charles — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:11:50 +0000

Thanks, I tried your directives and it worked like magic….you wouldnt believe that norton had asked me to pay $99.00 to get ride of these stubborn cookies that there antivirus on my system couldnt stop. Now you healed me for free. Thanks

By: Jono

Jono — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:19:09 +0000

I have had some recurring tracking cookies slowing my computer now, the options layout has changed in firefox 2.0 and i have set it to block all cookies. is there a way i can set it just to block 3rd party cookies?

By: kris

kris — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:32:33 +0000

ive just read ya info ive done all that and hopefully that will work now i only have 1 question i have been having problems with yahoo when it signs out on its own it means my password has been changed and i cant get my account back how do i prevent that i dont give me details to any one please replay back

By: Cathie

Cathie — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:32:28 +0000

I don’t care about ppl tracking where I’ve been online, but I’ve got a tracking cookie that is slowing my machine down and I can delete it a hundred times a day (literally). I switched from McAfee to Norton. Contacted Norton to find out how to get rid of it for good and they wanted to connect me to the fee based tech support. I knew there was a way to Block them, but I didn’t remember how to get there. Thanks for the info I hope it takes care of my problem.

By: ron

ron — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:33:54 +0000

edd:
me again that keep cookies,ask me every time, would drive a guy crazy.i will leave it at until i close firefox for now.please do an update to this artical as it is a little old for ff.thks.ron

By: ron

ron — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:24:42 +0000

ed:
could do an update to eliminate tracking cookies for 1e7,think it is the same,and fire fox 2.00? ,i think it might be a little different,through your mailing list.love your articles.please.thanks ron.

By: Ahmed Nabeel

Ahmed Nabeel — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:14:06 +0000

Thank you for the information. I was wondering how to getrid of this cookies and now I got the solution

By: Luke Simpson

Luke Simpson — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:27:08 +0000

Thx ive been wondering how to get rid of this tracking cookie for weeks. Your a legend mate! thx again

By: l s smith

l s smith — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:48:56 +0000

how does one do something on the computer called defragging? thanks.

By: Robb

Robb — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:57:36 +0000

I am on AOL9. How do I get into Firefox 1.0 in order to follow your guidance concerning eliminating/blocking tracking cookies?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:07:30 +0000

Is there a way to block SiteMeter? I dl’d it and put it on my blog to see what it tracked (I took it off now). It seems like an invasion of privacy to me. One person, after visiting his blog, told me the intersection that was close to my home. How is that possible? I don’t know if he was using SiteMeter or not, but that’s more info than I want anyone to know about me.

By: Alan Jismore

Alan Jismore — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 01:02:49 +0000

Please check out http://www.squsi.com a free web service. We built this at our own expense because we’re mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. It’s available for download from download.com (just Google squsi).

It’s free now, no premium edition and no charge for the auto-updated (with your your permission) definitions

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:44:38 +0000

I have set things as you say for some time but notice that freshdownload (and other download managers) seem to allow loads of tracking cookies even if i dont get them from browsing using either Firefox or IE. How the hell do we stop them then (I have the Privacy tab in FD set to NOT send cookies- but I dont think we are talking about those cookies anyway!). Any ideas anyone?

By: Brett Goodnough

Brett Goodnough — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:41:06 +0000

I have a tracking cookie that is dated to track me for one year. I can find this cookie and delete it, but it keeps popping up. My anti-spyware sofware spots it and notifies me that it has been quarantined, but it comes up every day. Is there any way to get rid of it completely priot to its expiration?

Thanks for your help.

By: tom-paris

tom-paris — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:20:02 +0000

I allow all cookies, keep those that are nessary(web sites that I belong to). Delete the rest on a dally basis, and SCAN & SCAN & SCAN……