Some browser observations (2)

[Joel Hammer]

Hmm....

I am not at home right now and can't give you the names, but there were at
least two places hitting me with cookies, besides the NYTimes. I wonder if
my ISP (Comcast) is doing this to me? Or, maybe you are taking those cookies
and don't know it?

Why not try changing your cookie policy to ask permission for all
cookies, go to the NYTimes web site, and see if you don't get asked to allow
some cookies from non NYTimes sites?

Speaking of cookies, would it be bad to just use your firewall to block
cookies from all those obnoxious advertising places, or would that make the
browser hang up while the web page tries to download them on you?

Joel


On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:39:07PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> > Second item worth bringing up. I was running konqueror (redhat 7.1) as a
> > remote application on my wife's new linux box (an old retread win98 box),
> > and all was well. I was reading the NYTimes, which is free but full of popup
> > ads. I finally started rejecting cookies from those popup people. Suddenly,
> > I started getting plugin errors galore from konqueror, which made it almost
> > unusable. I restarted konqueror, with the same problem. So, I reset the
> > cookie policy to accept those cookies again, and the problem went away.
> > 
> > This seems like a bug in konqueror or a clever way for the NYTimes to
> > avoid parasites like me. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
> 
> I read the NYT website all the time with Mozilla.  My cookie preference 
> is set to
> allow only cookies originating from the site, and i don't have any problems.
> 
> I've only encountered a 1-time popup at the NYT site, and it occurs on 
> the front
> page.
> 
> 
> 
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