Word to the wise

Just thought I would pass this on, but I'm sure many here are already aware of this.

I had my computer worked on this past weekend. I naively believed that all cookies were cleared when I logged off of this site. Untrue. When I opened up the folder with the cookies in it, I was shocked to see how many RIU cookies there were.

I don't know that it really matter, unless your computer is confiscated--in which case, you are probably already in a lot of trouble--or if someone who lives with you does not know what you are doing online.

I just thought I would pass this info along. I had at least a dozen cookies from this site alone.

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also doesn't hurt to use firefox with noscript... that's just minimal basic stuff as far as I'm concerned.

Mystik said:

ccleaner

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free, fast effective.
also doesn't hurt to use firefox with noscript... that's just minimal basic stuff as far as I'm concerned.

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Thanks!

I just went in and manually deleted mine. I work on a mac, so it's not quite the same as it is on a PC, but I can open the cookies and either delete them all, or just choose which ones to get rid of. I was just sort of chagrined to see that they were there, given that the site says all cookies are cleared, when they are not. I hope more people see this, because let me tell you, it was a just a bit uncomfortable when the guy at that mac genius bar opened my cookies and . . . well, maybe he didn't notice, but I sure did.

Now, imagine if it were someone to fear? Shivers!

Thanks for the info.

I would just use FireFox if you arent already, and go to options / privacy / Uncheck keep history for 90 days, below that check, 'Always clear my private data when i close firefox', then click Settings on the right of that and check all of the options and then you dont have to worry about that

ThatsWhatSheSaid said:

I would just use FireFox if you arent already, and go to options / privacy / Uncheck keep history for 90 days, below that check, 'Always clear my private data when i close firefox', then click Settings on the right of that and check all of the options and then you dont have to worry about that

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Hmm, that's interesting. I've used firefox before, and it just seems to cause a lot of privacy problems. There are just too many options, and even though I thought I had all my bases covered, and I think I did at least some of what you are saying, my browsing was still not private.

The new browser for macs sucks. I'm sure there are people all over the world who are getting into trouble with family, etc, over this. I guess they thought they were doing us a favor or something, making it so much more user friendly? When you click on file<new tab? It brings up a screen shot of all the sites you've visited! And a few times, I've told it to turn on private browsing, but sometimes sites that I do not want others to see still show up. Granted, I'm usually the only person who uses this computer, but still . . . . It even showed my gmail window! No, you cannot read the whole email, but you can see the first few lines.

Now, just imagine all the men out there, getting busted by their wives and gf's who click on "new tab" and find some subversive sex site. ack!

Thanks for the firefox info. Maybe it will help others, but I didn't have much luck with it. Might be a mac vs pc thing, though.

Have a good one.

This isnt my p/c or anything, just a Firefox SS I found. I know what you mean about the TAB thing, oddly enough thats never happened to me but thats probably because I delete 'Getting started, Mosted Visted, and Lastest Heahlines' from the Bookmark Toolbar, aswell as under Bookmarks, so whether I right click a link and hit 'open in new tab' or just open new tab it always opens a blank page. If you had all your settings checked so that it clears your private data when you close firefox nothing should be stored about what you were viewing. Granted, I dont have FireFox mastered or anything, but I havent had problems with it, the browsers I'd be most concerned with would be Interet Explorer since they had that security vulneribility about a year ago, and Google Chrome with all the privacys issues it had at launch, but like you said it could be a mac/pc thing.

I *think*, if you delete the Bookmark for it on the Bookmark Toolbar, and under regular bookmarks when you open a tab it should be blank, and if that doesnt do it there should be an option some where

Yea found out the hard way. My little brother found the cookies and clicked on them "thought it was a duck shooter game" and was like omg!!! mommy mommy! Came home and mom was like wtf!! i was likeee uhhh. Lol had to move all my plants from the top of my barn to a woods like 2 miles away by night ... with only feet and hands ;( lol