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don't delete your cookies. just temporarily use a different browser than your normal one (opera, camino, chrome, or whatever)
by xenophanes 18y ago
don't delete your cookies. just temporarily use a different browser than your normal one (opera, camino, chrome, or whatever)
- jgrahamc 18y agoOr when you are doing this use Safari's Private Browsing so that whatever cookies are added get removed automatically.
- kwamenum86 18y agoSafari's private browsing is flawed and its been shown that it does not always remove cookies.
- jws 18y agoThis is not the problem Private Browsing solves. Private browsing still lets your browser show cookies that it already has, it won't store new ones (except it doesn't have control over plugins, so they might). What that means is if you are a regular Amazon user then decide to pop in as a stranger by turning on private browsing, Amazon will still know you. What Private Browsing does do, is on window close get rid of all the cookies, history, field autofills, and such that you accumulated in two hour private browsing session searching for an opened, boxed, Luke Skywalker figure for your girlfriend. It doesn't stop the web sites from keeping track, for instance eBay might still show them in the recent items if you were logged in.
- Herring 18y agoIt's probably best to set firefox to delete cookies when you close the browser then setup a whitelist. Mine's only 15 sites long & I'm a power user.
- sh1mmer 18y agoI use Camino on my mac for just this. It has the handy "porn reset" which dumps the whole session cookies and all. This is great for webdev site testing, online banking, etc.
- dhimes 18y agoI would imagine that by now some sites are relying more on Persistent Identification Elements more than cookies simply because fewer folks know about them, but I've no data.
- arthurk 18y agoIf you use Firefox and have the Web Developer Extension installed, you can delete Cookies for a specific domain and temporarily disable cookies.