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Re: What's your cookies policy? said by koam:I did read all the help at Google. I don't see how it answers my question:
Thanks. On Chrome they seem to bundle two issues into one checkbox
"___Ignore exceptions and block third-party cookies from being set"
I take it that I want to block third-party cookies, clear all cookies when closing Chrome, and have an Exceptions list that's used so that I it keeps cookies for sites that I want to stay logged into after closing the browser.
So I'm confused that they have bundled together blocking 3rd-party with ignoring the exceptions.
Also confusing is that the help describes, in quotes, a setting that doesn't exist (I can't find it) but may be a paraphrasing of another setting: If you only want to accept first-party cookies, select the "Block all third-party cookies without exception" checkbox.
I'd want to block 3rd-party cookies and also have an exceptions list for sites that I want to allow cookies to remain after closing browser. Google just started with the nasty tracking people through cookies policy. I was using Iron which is Chrome with all the privacy tracking crap that Google adds (Google created Chrome for one reason only...so they could track folks) removed. But starting, I believe it was, around December 2010 Google removed the ESSENTIAL cookie setting that all other major browsers have (except for Safari which also was created mostly to track people). The setting that was removed recently from Chrome is Ask Me and that is why you can't have exceptions (white list) and also block all third party cookies. . Use another browser. I left Iron over this issue and so did a lot of other iron users. Iron is a joke anyway because the author says he can't add the Ask Me cookie feature back which makes one realize that Iron is not much of a browser if he can't even do that to make a more privacy conscious browser.
Use Firefox, SeaMonkey, Opera or even IE as they all have Ask Me as an option for cookies. Even if there is a Google extension that gives you back the Ask Me cookie feature Google removed recently don't use it! No Google extension is privacy safe! Don't use Google. Opera is just as fast and has a TON more features. Plus, once you really get into Opera you are totally spoiled because it is so extremely configurable (you could spend years and still not know all about how you can configure it) you find greatly stripped down browsers like Chrome unpalatable simply because you cannot personalize them much. You even find Firefox simplistic after using Opera for a good period of time. (This is not to say Opera is perfect as it has problems and some settings are not easy to change and the new tab stacking doesn't work too well and, totally uncharacteristically for Opera, you cannot turn it off. That will change though in a future version. Opera's Persistent Storage (which is going to replace cookies as sites move to persistent storage instead) is hard to turn off totally but it is a new feature in Opera so it will get refined in upcoming versions).
IE has the cookie function you want under Advanced option for cookies (not the slider) but according to Steve Gibson IE 9 is even worse than earlier versions as it is completely incapable of giving you privacy cookie wise no matter how you configure it.
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