Australian AltaVista Mirror bugs me...

[Luis M. Huesch]

cookie warnings are just a few mouse clicks away in MS Internet Explorer
3.01 for Windows 95/NT:

View -> Options -> Advanced (then check the appropriate box)...


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> From: Nick Bannon <nbannon@tartarus.uwa.edu.au>
> To: link list <link@charlotte.anu.edu.au>; www list
<n-ccd-www@nepean.uws.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: Australian AltaVista Mirror bugs me...
> Date: Saturday, November 23, 1996 3:38 PM
> 
> Rachel Polanskis wrote:
> [...]
> > Is it just me, or does anyone else find the Altavista Australian
> > mirror *truly* annoying?
> > 
> > The way it downloads an ad everytime the user selects a new page, 
> > *and* gets a cookie with it really bugs me.
> 
> Yes, it used to annoy me, too...  Not to mention *&^%#^@ Apache "click
> trails", giving me a cookie for _every_single_ HTTP connection...
> 
> Using Netscape 3.0 for Linux ;
> 
> cd ~/.netscape
> rm cookies
> ln -s /dev/null cookies
> netscape
> Options->Network Preferences->Protocols->
>   "Show an Alert before Accepting a cookie" OFF (ie no alert)
> 
> I don't know if the equivalent would be quite as easy using MS Windows, 
> or on a Macintosh, but I expect it's possible. The upshot is that the
> cookies are not saved permanently.
> 
> [...]
> > I've gone back to using the master site.
> > It's faster too, and like the ABC, No Ads! :)
> 
> Except for Digital ones - but I _like_ them. <grin>
> 
> Nick.