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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: A privacy related idea for KDE2/Konqueror
From:       Kevin Forge <forge () myrealbox ! com>
Date:       2000-03-23 13:28:02
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KFM and Konqy do "the right thing" (TM).

By default you are asked if you want to accept cookies from a particular
domain.  You can forinstance accept all cookies from Slashdot.org and
none from msn.com and then choose on a per cookie basis what to do with 
those from cnn.com

Art Richardson wrote:
> 
> I downloaded this software and use it on the Windoze side. You would
> not believe the amount of cookies that are generated and the most seem
> to be where my kids go. I hope they develop a Linux variant.
> 
>> You may read the article in yesterday's Slashdot about how DoubleClick
>> collects information in a very dirty way via banners/cookies. This
>> article referred the another one on CNN [see URL below] that is about
>> disabling this dirty action of DoubleClick with a little software for
>> [don't flame for mentioning the name of satan:))] IE5. It also writes
>> the idea behind the this software. This idea could be implemented for
>> Konqueror and it would make users happy and DClick clueless about what
>> happened:)
>> http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/21/idcide/index.html
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