Cookies, was NP A little Privacy Rant (long)

[Michael Baum]

On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 09:47:23 -0700, Spencer Thiel wrote:

>If you are really concerned, I'd recommend getting the Opera browser at 
>http://www.opera.com.  The browser will inform you when illegal cookies are 
>being placed on your machine, or any cookie for that matter, and you can 
>set up cookie filters if there are web sites you absolutely don't want on 
>your machine.  IE and Netcape offer the abililty to turn cookies off, but 
>that's not really a feasible option since cookies are used on so many sites 
>in useful ways.

Actually, FWIW, IE has a fairly useful option to accept cookies only on a selective basis -- the "Prompt before accepting cookie." setting that I use a lot. I'd like to know what version of Opera supports cookie filtering, since the Windows-32 version 3.60 that I use -- which seems to be the current one for that platform -- explicitly does _not_ allow that.

-maab