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Chris Game wrote:
>> Don't try to manage suspect sites with cookies instead of a HOSTS
>> file; remember that there are about 9000 entries in the HOSTS, I
>> wouldn't even think about managing them through the cookies
>> instead.
>
> I'm surprised you can manage them *at all*. There must be a better
> way!
There is, and it works just about perfectly with Mozilla/Firefox. You just
would have to use one of these browsers for a little while to understand
how simple this can be:
When I visit a site that wants to set cookies, a dialog pops up. It allows
me to choose whether I want to allow those cookies as they are, whether I
want to allow them as session-only cookies (no matter whether they are
session cookies or persistent cookies, Mozilla will forget them when
closed), whether I want to deny the cookie, and whether I want this choice
to be applied to all future cookies from this server without ever asking me
again.
In almost all cases I respond with "allow as session-only cookie", as this
doesn't hurt me and prevents any problems with a site depending on cookies.
Only for sites I want to remember me I respond with "allow as is". In
almost all cases I also check to remember this configuration for the
future. That's it then. And everything I set in that dialog can later be
modified in the cookie manager, which I almost never have to visit (other
than with Opera).
This can be made /so/ simple and effective. I don't understand why Opera
makes such a complication out of a simple thing. I appreciate the faster
loading speed Opera has, but that's a bad excuse for a bad user interface.
And Opera's cookie handling is a schoolbook example for a bad UI. Could
almost be from Microsoft... :)
Gerhard
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