[GLLUG] Firefox Cookie Control

[Chick Tower]

On 05/31/2015 05:10 PM, Charles Ulrich wrote:
> There are quite possibly a number of things going on here, but I don't
> think any website has the ability to tell a browser to override the
> user's cookie preferences.

You may recall that three months ago I complained about websites 
altering my cookie exceptions list and storing their cookies on my PC. 
It was only happening on my PC in Lansing, not St. Louis, which is what 
led me to the probably answer.  I had the EFF's Privacy Badger installed 
in Lansing, but not in St. Louis.  You can read more about it at 
eff.org, but in short it's supposed to stop third-party websites from 
storing cookies.  It appears that it does so by allowing the websites 
you actually intended to visit to store cookies.  That's why it was 
saying "Allow first-party only" in the exceptions list.

I removed Privacy Badger and the problem seems to have gone away.
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                                Chick