Browser cookies *crushed*

For cookie allergies...

This trick works with all 4.x versions of Netscape Navigator.

Find a FILE named "cookies.txt" in your Netscape folder and either mark it as read-only (after emptying it out) or delete it and create a FOLDER with the same name.

In Opera, find the file named "cookies4.dat" and give it the same treatment as above.

In IE 4.x and 5.x, things are a bit harder to control.

You'll have to add these lines to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to wipe out your cookies from your drive at each boot.

Quote:

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del c:\windows\cookies\index.dat
if exist c:\windows\cookies\*.txt del c:\windows\cookies\*.txt

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This doesn't prevent cookies from being written in the first place, but it does prevent them from reporting once the PC has rebooted.

More on this at
Bruce's Independent WebWasher Workshop.