For Those Worried About Cookies

[anaxcrosswords]

A friend pointed me towards a free add-on called Privacy Badger:

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

I've just installed it and it's great for those of you who worry about some of the cookies you end up with when visiting websites. It colour-codes and lists them (there's a little dropdown in the toolbar), automatically blocking the unsavoury ones. It shows AB loading 7 cookies on my system, all of them a big thumbs-up green, perfectly safe.
Recommended!

[Old_Geezer]

Might be worth looking at for those annoyed by that sort of thing.

Bit about it here. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/02/eff_privacy_badger/

[bibblebub]

Ghostery does much the same for Firefox https://www.ghostery.com/en/ , and there is also Self-Destructing Cookies https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/ which ensures that all cookies for sites which aren't on your whitelist get deleted as soon as you leave that site. Firefox also has a browser setting as to whether 3rd party cookies should be accepted at all (I have it set to 'never').

[bibblebub]

(Have just checked and Ghostery can be added to Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari)