[LINK] Why do people permit third-party cookies?

Peter Batchelor peter at batchelors.net
Fri Aug 5 11:22:39 AEST 2016


Jan,
the Lightbeam addon for Firefox is a great way to show connections and data sharing between the sites you’ve visited.
I used it in a club talk a few months ago to demonstrate just how much information most people are giving away…
Peter

> On 5 Aug 2016, at 10:03 AM, JanW <jwhit at internode.on.net> wrote:
> 
> At 09:41 AM 5/08/2016, Karl Auer wrote:
>> Running with no cookies and no scripts is an austere, but somehow
>> peaceful web experience. 
> 
> Ad Block is a must as well, for safety as much as anything. 
> 
> Speaking of --
> 
> I'm doing a talk on "safe(R) computing" for our club next week. 
> 
> I wouldn't mind suggestions of the top 2 or 3 "must include" recommendations from Linkers.
> 
> Email me privately if you don't want to fill up the Link list:    jwhit at internode.on.net
> 
> I'll compile and report back any response results I get before say next Wednesday.
> 
> Thanks!
> Jan
> 
> 
> 
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