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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: A privacy related idea for KDE2/Konqueror
From:       David Grill Watson <dgwatson () kent ! edu>
Date:       2000-03-23 13:33:59
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Of course, on KDE2 the cookiejar program asks you about every single 
@#$#@$@#$!@# cookie, regardless of whether you click on 'accept all' (which I 
take to mean 'accept all cookies from all domains').

One thing about the cookiejar program - I was previewing KDE2 for my mom, and 
she really doesn't understand about cookies - you might want to have some 
sort of help box that tell just what they are and why you should worry about 
them.  My explanation wasn't good enough...  And she didn't like having to 
click on 'accept' for EVERY SINGLE SITE!

(of course, it's very possible that this is a bug.... :)

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Kevin Forge wrote:
> 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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