You remember I had to refresh Firefox last week, wiping away all my settings and add-ons. NoScript and a few key settings went back on right away and so far, so good. No crashing.<\/p>\n
In that quick re-set I made sure that “Do not track” was enabled. I didn’t, however, do anything with cookie management. <\/p>\n
Just now I was cruising through Firefox Preferences looking for additional settings to put back to normal and I had to laugh. My browser was infested<\/em> by hundreds of tracking cookies — so many that I couldn’t wipe them out selectively and keep the “good” cookies that enable quick logins and such. I just had to blow all cookies away and start afresh.<\/p>\n So it’s true what they say and what anyone living in the age of Little Brother should assume: “Do not track” means “Oh, please, Mr. or Ms. Ad-Person; despite the fact that I know you’re going to ignore this plea, I’m still going to go ahead and beg you — beg so very, very humbly on bended knee! — not to track me.”<\/p>\n Firefox is now set where it ought to be. No third-party cookies allowed, period. All other cookies deleted upon exit, except those I explicitly want to keep. During long online sessions I’ll periodically go in and clear cookies that benefit some website more than they benefit me. <\/p>\n The “Do not track” box is still checked. Just because it was easier than unchecking it.<\/p>\n Now off to see if I can install a new ad blocker to replace the sadly compromised (and possibly crash-causing) AdBlockPlus. (UPDATE: I’ve decided to try uBlock Origin<\/a>. Will let you know how it goes.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You remember I had to refresh Firefox last week, wiping away all my settings and add-ons. NoScript and a few key settings went back on right away and so far, so good. No crashing. In that quick re-set I made sure that “Do not track” was enabled. I didn’t, however, do anything with cookie management. Just now I was cruising through Firefox Preferences looking for additional settings to put back to normal and I had to laugh. My browser was infested by hundreds of tracking cookies — so many that I couldn’t wipe them out selectively and keep the “good”…<\/p>\n