For what it's worth, I use Netscape, and have made my cookies.txt file "read only" so that no information is ever written to it. I have NEVER been denied any type of site navigation because of this. I don't know why it works, even though I have cookies set to be accepted as long as they get sent back to the originating server. I can only assume that the servers are somehow fooled, either by thinking their cookies are being written by virtue of just the 'presence' of the file, or perhaps the cookies are first stored in memory, and that is what is fooling the server writing the cookies. If that is the case, then closing the browser erases any cookies stored there. Of course, I do have to login separately to sites that require it, if I haven't yet been there during that browser session, but to me, that is a small price to pay for the peace of mind knowing that all of my tracks are not there for all to see.
Again, I don't know why it works, but it is a tip that was passed to me a long time ago, and I've been using it ever since. Note that it doesn't apply to IE, since the cookies are written to different folders. Now that I think about it, I never did check, doing the same thing with the IE cookie folders. Perhaps someone has beat me to it. If so, I'm sure they will speak up, as well as anyone who might know why this methods works for me using Netscape.
Len |
