Its quite possible that the cookies are being accepted, and i'm none the wiser. I'm not interested in messing around with my cookies.
Quite honestly, i don't see what the big deal is about cookies. I really dont' care much about what gets written. Joel Hammer wrote: > 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. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 2:25pm up 9 days, 21:20, 4 users, load average: 0.41, 0.22, 0.18 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
