Re: if you don't give google their cookie

Micha <[email protected]> writes:

> If there would be a problem with cookies, wouldn't it be suffiecient to
> disable cookies for google.com in the browser ?

Not all browsers can disable cookies for specific sites.

> And if not, what are the options with wwwoffle:
> Would the 'Cookie = ' in the CensorHeader section also work in this case?

This would stop WWWOFFLE sending any cookies back to Google even
though your browser may become full of them.

> And what about the 'disable-meta-set-cookie' option of the ModifyHTML section?

This would not stop Javascript based cookie setting.  The only thing
that WWWOFFLE can do for this is to disable scripts as Dan suggested
in the original e-mail.

> I once moved the extended search imput form into a custom HTML page,
> and i use this (by apache) to assemble search requests - because i can do it 
> offline - this is also extensible to login pages for example.
> 
> Maybe this would omit the google cookies, too ?

If the Javascript is there to set a cookie then putting a copy of the
form on another web page would fix it.

> And I still don't understand this JS. What does it do ? 
> What kind of data they is google catching by cookies ?
> Anyway, we don't want google starve of hunger, don't we...

I don't get the Javascript with google.co.uk, perhaps it is different
on different versions of Google.  I don't know what it is doing, but I
run with scripts disabled by WWWOFFLE by default anyway.

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Andrew.
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