How do you prevent tracking cookies in Firefox?

Question

Is there an addon, or another type of program that prevents tracking cookies in Firefox?

Answer 1

Some of the answers given above are truly uninformed. There certainly are ways to prevent tracking cookies....Go to Tools> Add-Ons> Get Extensions...

What you are looking for is the Permit Cookies extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=permit+cookies&status=4

This will allow you to block cookies by site, permanently. You can rid your self of doubleclick, adrevolver, and a host of other unnecessary/ adware tracking cookies, just be sure and allow the primary sites you need to have cookies enabled for, aka mail.yahoo.com, etc.

The first day or two you be prompted to allow or deny all kinds of cookies, then it mellows out a bit, as your permissions are saved and remembered.

Answer 2

Firefox Tracking Cookies

Answer 3

Tracking cookies are required by some sites. If you have disabled cookies, the site gives a message like "Sorry, cookies must be enabled to visit this site."

Before shutting down, you can delete all files in the browser cache (that's HTML files, Javascript, gif, jpg etc) AND you can also delete all cookies. In IE7, it is Tools - Delete Browsing History - Delete All. In FF there has to be something similar.

The only drawback is that you have to type in your username for sites that otherwise remember your username with a cookie (Netflix, banking sites, Yahoo and so on). But all the sites that track your browsing habits just to make money will be confused because their cookie has been deleted.

Tell your friends to clean their browser cache frequently. This is something you want to do when you use a computer in a public site (library, internet cafe) because some evil minds look there for passwords.

Answer 4

I don't know about blocking them as you do need cookies to visit sites on the Internet but to remove them, in fire fox go to tools>clear private data and make sure that the cookies box is checked, do this every time you come off the Internet. Also ccleaner is good to clean up files, registry keys and cookies. Peace!

Answer 5

Umm, no, there are no programs to stop all tracking cookies.
There are ones that stop bad ones and spyware though.
Unfortunately, cookies are necessary on the net.
Try downloading Avast4home
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
Its free and easy to use.
Other than that, do you have a firewall?
I use Zonealarm.
I controls what information comes and goes onyour computer.
I would really get that one and learn how to use it.
http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en
(The link is at the bottom "I only want basic protection" for the free one.)
Good luck

Answer 6

Click on tools then preferences then click on browsing (or what ever the tab is) and then click only except cookies from sites i visit. Or you can use OPERA instead of firefox and be even safer!

Answer 7

You can download the latest version of Mozilla Firefox from here http://j.mp/1jBltfG

Mozilla Firefox is one of the world's most popular web browsers and, to me, it's the best.

Answer 8

McAffee and Norton both have software to prevent bad cookies and spyware being installed on your system.

Answer 9

I recommend you to print this out first
Please follow these steps to a completely secure and clean computer, which is all for free and safe! Remove all firewalls and anti-virus on your computer, as more than one of them causes unwanted conflicts on your computer. Note: It is perfectly fine to have more than one anti-spyware. To remove “Windows Firewall”, click Start>Control Panel>Security Center>Windows Firewall>Off (not recommended) Note: Don’t worry about that, these steps will relieve you of that worry. Now that’s done, remove your ant-virus by clicking Start>Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs. (Wait for the list to be populated by all your programs on your computer.) Look for your anti-virus, then click “remove” after that follow the uninstall wizard to remove your anti-virus. Note: If you had a different firewall than “Windows Firewall” then just follow the way to remove your anti-virus, except look for your firewall instead of the anti-virus. (Make sure that the “Windows Firewall” is off also).
Security Programs:
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1.) AVG Anti-Virus
-http://www.download.com/3000-2239_4-10703202.html

2.) AVG Anti-Spyware
-http://free.grisoft.com/doc/downloads-products/us/frt/0?prd=asf

3.) AVG Anti-Rootkit
-http://free.grisoft.com/doc/downloads-products/us/frt/0?prd=arw

4.) Spybot Search&Destroy
-http://fileforum.betanews.com/download/Spybot_Search_and_Destroy/1043809773/1

5.) a-squared Free
-http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/

6.) Ad-Aware 2007 Free
-http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-2007-Free/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5

7.) Windows Defender
- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&displayLang=en&hash=OZ12x%2facDQZcX14rp6O9q9QOmDfEK%2bmKGAs04c76ST9TPXNC57za3qarG0Mx1emmFlaOph74OsG9FiJQt2AF5Q%3d%3d

8.) Comodo Firewall
- http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html

Computer Clean Up & Tune Up Programs:
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1.) CCleaner
- http://ccleaner.com/download/downloadpage.aspx?1

2.) Advanced WindowsCare Personal
- http://www.download.com/Advanced-WindowsCare-Personal/3000-2086-10407614.html?part=dl-AdvancedW&subj=dl&tag=button

3.) IObit SmartDefrag
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=5318&file=10&evp=3907499a9d91d6d4d70477dfa7628159

4.) Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
- http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dleusingregistry.html

5.) Registry Distiller
- http://www.codeode.com/registrydistiller/index.html

6.) TweakNow RegCleaner Standard
- http://www.tweaknow.com/RegCleaner.html

Now that you have completed downloading these programs, restart your computer twice. (This ensures that all or most of the programs have been properly installed on your computer). After restarting your computer twice, update every single program, this is to be done as much as possible. Now that you have updated all the programs reboot into “Safe Mode” (This will make a nice, deep, clean scan on your computer with your new programs)-Turn off your computer>Turn on your computer>immediately hold on “F8”. This brings you to the menu to go to “Safe Mode”. Use your arrow keys and select “Safe Mode” Then log in. Congratulations, you have logged into “Safe Mode” Now that you are in “Safe Mode” (Run a full scan on every program when told to.) Run a FULL SCAN on AVG anti-spyware, AVG anti-virus, and AVG anti-rootkit at the same time. After these programs have finished, delete all found infections. Now run a FULL SCAN
on A-Squared Free, AdAware 2007 Free, and Spybot Search&Destroy at the same time so nothing can slip through. Note: There is not a Full Scan option on Spybot Search&Detstroy. If these programs have found anything, simply delete whatever they have found. Finally run a FULL SCAN with Windows Defender. It’s kind of hard to find out how to do a full scan on Windows Defender, so here’s how. On the top you can see “scan”, then right next to it, is a diagonal line, right next to that is an arrow, click on it and choose full scan. Windows should not find anything by now so if it hasn’t, congratulations your computer has been disinfected of viruses, spyware, and much more, but we are not done yet. Its time to clean up, so now run each of the clean up & tune up programs one by one! They should find some stuff so if they do then simply fix the problems by clicking fix or repair. Note: “Fix” or “Repair” are the options of most of the clean up & tune up programs. Congratulations your computer has been cleaned, disinfected, and tuned up. Also if you want to have an enjoyable internet browser, where you can go wherever you want, without having to worry about pop ups then, download these internet browsers which are listed by ranking.
1.) Safari- http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
2.) Mozilla- http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-2.0.0.6&os=win&lang=en-US
3.) Opera- http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=29650&thanks=true&sub=true
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Answer 10

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