So, I go to a news site that I’ve never been to before and my cookie warning thingy asks if I want to accept the cookie or not. Why I would want a cookie taking up space on my comp for a site I’ll never visit again is beyond me.
So, I click on the Block Cookie button. It comes up again. Block Cookie, block cookie, block cookie, block cookie, block cookie, block cookie, block cookie, four thousand fucking times! I said NO the first time douche-stain! :mad:
At what point during my stream of NO’s was I supposed to relent? Well, I guess they really want a cookie, so I’ll cave. I am a fucking moron afterall. :rolleyes:
Did I mention that if I select “Block all Cookies from this site” it creates a log with that damn site’s cookie title in it? See above, where I say that I’ll never fucking visit this site again, at least not anytime soon.
If you’re one of the people that just click on “Block all Cookies from this site”, check out the size of your “do not cookie” list. It’s freakin huuuuuge. Like an orange on a toothpick or Sputnik even. Don’t waste my damn HD space!!! Not even a little! Fuck you!
Yes this is lame, but I think the title implies that. Fight the power, don’t eat cookies!
Thank God… I’m not going crazy(-er). I’ve experienced the same thing on my Windows machine.
I really don’t understand why this happens. I was always under the assumption that a website might store 1 (maybe 2) cookies on your computer (obviously depending on the site), but ever since I asked to be prompted during attempts to store cookies on my computer I’ve noticed that several websites try to store 3-5+ cookies. WTF? Why in the name of Gates does a website need to store so many cookies? And these are “common,” “everyday” websites too.
If it didn’t create a log of what sites you had blocked cookies from, how would your browser remember which sites you had already decided to block cookies from?
The first one is (I think) a cookie to confirm registration status. The second one is probably a session cookie, to track how many stories I peruse during my time there. The third one is most likely the host for the site’s ad content.
If you’re surfing a ad-heavy site, you’re probably being asked to set a lot of cookies for the advertisers.
And, FTR, I block cookies for almost all sites, unless I’m either trying to remain logged in for a specific purpose (SDMB, for example), trying to buy something (Amazon.com), or any other reason where I explicitly want the server to be able to keep track of my requests.
Just the other day, I was helping a colleague with slow performing system. As a matter of course, I checked for Spyware and found, among other Spyware, 127 tracking cookies, plus another 1,300 other cookies. I find it difficult to believe that this colleague visited over 1,300 web sites while surfing the net on the job. Maybe, just maybe… but I have still have some doubts.
The sheer volume of cookies on many users’ systems, especially for those will little to no awareness, is out of control, IMHO. Whosoever places unnecessary cookies on computer systems should be immersed chin deep in a vat of dung beetles.
Over time I’ve grown weary of Internet Explorer and fond of Mozilla. It used to be that I’d only used Mozilla on Linux, but I’m slowly weaning myself off IE, and Mozilla is now my default browser. I haven’t yet uninstalled IE, but ….
If you dislike the cookie monster web sites, Mozilla does a much better job of cookie handling. The browser can be set to reject all cookies, except those from sites the user allows. A cookie inclusion list is much smaller than a cookie exclusion list. Plus, the user can instruct the browser to remove all cookies whenever the browser closes.
BTW, Amazon.com works just fine without cookies. Gotta love Amazon.
jweb, I understand the neccesity of an exclusion log, I just don’t want to fill it unneccessarily. If I got 3 cookie requests for three different servers upon my first visit to a site I would be only slightly annoyed. I’m talking about a request to store the same damn cookie dozens of times in a row. It sounds like my mouse is going to catch fire when I click on block that may times.
Maybe I should just block all cookies except selected sites’. That sounds like a bit of a pain too, but I’ll try it right now.
