On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 21:42:25 -0500, "Vanguard" <no@mail.invalid> wrote:


>
>Yet these same folks that are paranoid about tracking cookies forget
>that clicking on all those links to navigate to different pages means
>the source site can add info to the URL that the target site can use for
>tracking, and of course the user isn't changing their IP address during
>that navigation.
>
>The smartest approach to cookies is to whitelist them. You keep a
>whitelist of good cookie sites and all the rest are deleted (not
>blocked) when you exit the browser. Block 3rd party cookies (those
>where the source site writes a cookie that it can't use but has another
>domain specified within the cookie so that other domain can read that
>cookie and see it was written by the source site). After that, all
>non-whitelisted cookies get forced to be per-session cookies which get
>purged when the browser exits. I don't recommend blocking cookies if
>whitelisting is used because too many sites need them for proper
>operation of that site.
>
>There are plenty of cookie managers that include whitelisting, some of
>which are free. I happen to get cookie whitelisting in my popup blocker
>(PopUpCop, not free).

If your that worried about it then just go through a free proxy
server. Myself, I only use those to go to web forums I get banned
from.