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My favorite thing

Posted Mar 13, 2003 14:00 UTC (Thu) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
Parent article: Red Sheriff

I have a small perl script that scans my cookies file at netscape startup looking for (known) ID cookies from places like this. Rather than deleting them, though, it replaces the ID numbers with a totally randomized but similar-looking ones. This is even better than just blocking or deleting them. :)

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My favorite thing

Posted Mar 13, 2003 15:27 UTC (Thu) by yohahn (guest, #4107) [Link]

Hey,
That script sounds like it would be simple, but why don't you post it! :)

try this?

Posted Mar 13, 2003 20:34 UTC (Thu) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165) [Link]

Mozilla: Tools -> Cookie manager -> Managed stored cookies
[ ] "Don't allow removed cookies to be reaccepted later"
(does it work?)

try this?

Posted Mar 14, 2003 13:23 UTC (Fri) by torsten (guest, #4137) [Link]

I looked, and I had the redsherriff cookie. I tried this option, I imagine it does work. I did a couple of small test sites, removed the cookies, and they haven't returned.

Torsten

My favorite thing

Posted Mar 14, 2003 23:55 UTC (Fri) by rmassa (guest, #2984) [Link]

Please do post it :)