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By: kiwispouse

kiwispouse — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:46:22 +0000

sorry, it was exam week – hectic! ok, i have full admin rights. what steps should i take at dos prompt to delete?
ta,
kelly

By: Guy McDowell

Guy McDowell — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:04:44 +0000

I just don’t believe I have any moral, ethical or legal obligation to expose myself to the ads. Especially if they distract from the content. Nonetheless, my visit registers with their stats ware, so it benefits them in pitching their ad-space.

By: kiwispouse

kiwispouse — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:01:28 +0000

sorry to post twice, but meant to add that if the purpose of 3rd party cookies is to target advertising, why do the ads always have internet dating (with some sexy vixen), enhancing one’s, ahem, maleness, and such? i’m a 40+ long term married woman, so i find it offensive more than anything else.

By: kiwispouse

kiwispouse — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:59:08 +0000

when i visit B&N or amazon, i *am* paying them (a lot with the markup on international shipping), so why should i have to accept their *third party* (as in, not theirs) cookies too?

By: Yonathan Zarkovian

Yonathan Zarkovian — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:50:21 +0000

You pay for your internet connection, your computer and your electricity. But you don’t pay to the websites, and they owe you nothing. They offer you to use their service while “suffering” their ads. Don’t like it? Don’t use it.

By: Guy McDowell

Guy McDowell — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:31:34 +0000

Really? Unfair? To quote my father,”Nobody promised you fair.”

There will always be far more people that don’t use adblockers than do. Just as there will always be far more people that watch TV instead of recording it and editing out the commercials.

Plus, if you think the ads are selling products, you’re sadly mistaken. The ads are selling you to the companies that make the products. You are the product. I find that offensive. I pay for my Internet connection, my computer and my electricity. Then I have to see obnoxious ads everywhere I go? No thanks. That girl does NOT live anywhere near me nor does she think I’m sexy. Trust me, I checked.

Yes, makeuseof.com makes money from the ads and they pay me for the content I provide, and I am grateful for that. I’m sure you’ll call me a hypocrite. However, just because the company I work for has chosen this business model, doesn’t mean I’m bound to it.

Well, rant over. Thank you for your patience.

By: Yonathan Zarkovian

Yonathan Zarkovian — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:13:02 +0000

I don’t use any ads blocker because of what jupiterslove said. Using it hurts the sites you use and that’s unfair.

By: Guy McDowell

Guy McDowell — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:56:55 +0000

I just use the Ad-Block add-on for Firefox, so I don’t see any ads at all.
Maybe someone works for Omniture? Hmmm?

By: jupiterslove

jupiterslove — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:07:05 +0000

1) the cookie is for an ad netowrk to serve you ads
2) YES, IT DOES TRACK YOU ONLINE HABITS
3) stop being paranoid
4) I would rather have relevant ads sent to me than more ads for garbage
5) this type of tracking enables efficient ad serving/behavioral targeting…if you disable this cookie then certain sites may not work properly, you inherently hurt the sites you visit that use this cookie, and you will be served VERY garbage-y ads

By: David

David — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:05:54 +0000

Unless I’m missing something, I don’t seem to be able to get rid of cookies, especially the 2o7 one, in Firefox. I’ve unchecked the “accept third party cookies” box and attempted to delete the list I see under the “show cookies” button but they all seem to pop back.

By: Yonathan Zarkovian

Yonathan Zarkovian — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:36:47 +0000

This solved it. Thanks.

By: Guy McDowell

Guy McDowell — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:53:16 +0000

Used to work at a college, I understand. Omniture may have some advice on their site about deleting the cookie too. Although, they’ll probably just set another cookie.

By: kiwispouse

kiwispouse — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:11:31 +0000

hi guy. i don’t have full administrative rights – i use a ministry provided laptop for teachers. i can log in as an administrator, but it’s not quite the same thing. i can delete other cookies though; i clean out my cookie file regularly, as i don’t like to block outright for the reason i explained above.

i will try the dos command window, and a couple of the other suggestions below as well, though i don’t use firefox (chrome).

i had a wee chuckle at “have your admin delete them”. i can tell you don’t work at a school!

will check back over the weekend when i have an actual moment to sit down and think.

cheers,
kelly

By: David

David — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:52:36 +0000

When blocking on Firefox, you have to have the drop-down menu after “Privacy” set for “Use custom settings for history”. Mine was on “Remember history”, which had me fooled for a minute, as the window looks nothing like the screenshot.

By: Yonathan Zarkovian

Yonathan Zarkovian — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:30:30 +0000

My Options>Privacy window doesn’t look like yours at all. Using FF 3.5.3.

[IMG]http://i29.tinypic.com/10q9w69.png[/IMG]

By: Mysterious 2o7.net Tracking Cookie. All You Need To Know.

Mysterious 2o7.net Tracking Cookie. All You Need To Know. — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:41:55 +0000

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By: mums

mums — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:35:13 +0000

you should use the firefox addons TACO (Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out) which disables most behavioral advertising by setting permanent, generic, non personally identifiable “opt-out” cookies directly into the browser.

The 2o7.net cookie is included.

By: geeknik

geeknik — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:37:07 +0000

I just block 2o7.net at the network level. I have no 2o7.net cookies anywhere on my LAN.

By: Guy McDowell

Guy McDowell — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:28:48 +0000

Very cool. I hadn’t seen that one. I’ll have to add it to the arsenal.

By: Guy McDowell

Guy McDowell — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:25:19 +0000

You’re welcome! I remember back in the day when cookies were a big issue, then they seemed to get ignored. Weird.

By: housetier

housetier — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:25:00 +0000

Although it showed nothing new (for me), the article is still very good, because it raises awareness about those tracking cookies.

Thank you!

By: USBman

USBman — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:11:22 +0000

For persistent, hard-to-kill cookies, I suggest you check out BetterPrivacy addon. First seen at this Lifehacker article

By: USBman

USBman — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:51:32 +0000

…or, arguably a better way, you can use the Firefox add-on AdBlock Plus along with the “EasyPrivacy” list seen here: http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions

That works very well for me, blocking this tracking cookie, along with many other such concerns!

By: Guy McDowell

Guy McDowell — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:47:35 +0000

Interesting. Do you have administrative rights? Are you able to delete other cookies? If the answer is ‘no’, I’ll have to think about the best way to go about deleting them. Or have the admin delete them.

If the answer is ‘yes’, well, you might try going into the DOS command window and deleting it through there. Sometimes I can delete things like that, that I can’t otherwise delete.

Oh, if the browser is open, you may not be able to delete it as well – it’s in use. Try closing the browser first. Get back to me, I’d love to help you.

By: kiwispouse

kiwispouse — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:41:45 +0000

the trouble with blocking third party cookies is that is does impair the use of sites you don’t mind accepting cookies from. for example, blocking third parties on your browser outright prohibits you from buying something on amazon or barnes & noble, until you set the browser to accept.

that doesn’t bother me, however. my question is: how to delete the yucky 2o7 cookie from the cookies folder? everytime i have tried i am unable to delete it and get an error message. is there a magic word?

cheers,
kelly

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