Posted by spoc on April 9, 2004, at 21:36:09
In reply to Re: Silly Cookie ? 4 Dr. Bob and other tech smart ones, posted by noa on April 9, 2004, at 18:17:37
> Spoc and Octopusprime--thank you for all the suggestions. I started with the suggestion of changing the security level in internet options. But it does not give me the option of allowing certain sites. Perhaps I have a different version of IE? But what I am experimenting with now is that I did a "custom" level of security where I set the cookies preferences as follows: For "in session" cookies, ie, not stored, I enabled these. For stored cookies, I set it to prompt me before accepting them. This will probably be a pain in the butt to get prompts all the time, but I want to see how this works.>
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Noa, might you have gone to the Privacy tab and then clicked on 'Advanced' in the middle of the box, instead of 'Edit' towards the bottom? I think Internet Options are pretty standardized across all versions, and I do see the area where specific sites can be entered after clicking 'Edit,' as well as what I think you're referring to under 'Advanced.'Just so you know, it's no problem brainstorming with you on this if you have any questions -- I really enjoy it. My unintended/unanticipated "down time" of late has resulted in me being quite the armchair enthusiast!
I assumed from your original post that selectively accepting cookies wouldn't be feasible for you, since your description of trying to manually delete a lot of other cookies while saving Dr. Bob's showed that you do visit a number of other sites. I tried a high setting years back and it interferred with web sites in few ways. Anyway, I could post your objective at one of my favored forums if you like, since that will most quickly determine how close you can get to it. : )
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> BTW, even for banking sites and newspaper sites, etc., I think you don't have to keep the cookies, but if you don't keep them, the preferences you set for how the page is set up, etc. won't keep, or you'll have to enter name and password to get into the page each time you go there.
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> Thanks.
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