# Internet Cookies **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 14, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-cookies/25623 "2000-07-14T23:56:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ATTGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@ATTGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ATTGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-cookies/25623/1 "2000-07-14T23:56:59Z")
Just wondering what y’all thought was the best “cookie guard”? I’m tired of deleting hundreds of internet cookies every week or so, and would like to be selective in what I choose to accept. ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-cookies/25623/2 "2000-07-15T02:25:24Z")
I don’t want to hijack your thread, but I have the reverse problem. I would like to make cookies last longer. They keep expiring. I get tired of having to retype passwords every 4 hours to pick up email and at every reboot to reference my bank records or even library records. Why do you delete cookies,anyway? If it’s to save disk space, buy a new disk. Prices are so low now. I paid $125 for 25GB. (Unless you have a laptop of course.) Actually, the biggest disk problem is temporary internet files, like ad gifs. Put Window’s Disk Cleanup into the Task Scheduler, and clean while you sleep. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-cookies/25623/3 "2000-07-15T14:28:04Z")
The best Cookie guard is your browser setup selection where it says ‘warn before accepting cookies’… ---
**Author:** ![dorkbro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@dorkbro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkbro)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-cookies/25623/4 "2000-07-15T15:10:06Z")
You might give a look to the “Internet Junkbuster” (their web page is at [http://www.junkbuster.com](http://www.junkbuster.com) ). It has several very cool features - it stops cookies, it blocks banner advertisements, it can give you some other anonymity when surfing (blocks referers, disguises your browser, etc.), its highly configurable (you can choose which things to block and which to let through) and its free. It is available for Windows, Macintosh, Unix (and maybe other) operating systems. However, it seems to me that it was probably written by Unix folks - it gives you a lot of power to control what happens, but it won’t work well until you get your hands into the system and make some decisions. All of the configuration is done by editing text files. So, if you really want something with various kinds of point and click functions, you will want to look elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![ATTGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@ATTGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ATTGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-cookies/25623/5 "2000-07-16T01:23:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tshirts \* > \*\*Why do you delete cookies,anyway? \*\* My computer at work is used by other people after my shift. I don’t want them stumbling on my passwords… I know I probably shouldn’t be doing banking and stuff at a shared machine, but work is just about the only time I have to do that kind of stuff. (Isn’t that great?) ---
**Author:** ![Soupy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Soupy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soupy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2000, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-cookies/25623/6 "2000-07-16T07:25:58Z")
If you’re like most of us, you also get the funny “[sexkitten.com](http://sexkitten.com)” type, usually when you hit an innocent-looking come-on, saying “free phone calls” and it means “one free introductory sex chat”. Those are hard to explain to the straightlaced bosses. ---
**Author:** ![fredicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/779978/32.png) [@fredicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fredicus)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2000, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-cookies/25623/7 "2000-07-16T09:01:51Z")
Hi, I use cookiepal. It’s a great little prog, once set up it’ll ask if you want to accept the cookie or not, next time it comes across the same cookie it does what you told it to do last time without bothering you. I think I picked it up at tucows or [zd.net](http://zd.net), don’t recall which, gets my thumbs up 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![annalamerino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@annalamerino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annalamerino)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-cookies/25623/8 "2000-07-16T16:51:47Z")
I always wondered about the “[sexkitten.com](http://sexkitten.com)” ones. Just an ad? Phooey. I had assumed they were cyber-compliments from a secret-admirer bot.