amit wrote:
Hi all,
I'm totally new to 3rd party cookies!
1)would one please tell me what they are?
Some sites, especially hacker sites and sex sites, sometimes will
redirect you to another site that will put cookies on your computer,
often without your knowledge.
2)how to make IE to detect them?
If you have IE6, find the tools tab at the top of the page. Select
internet options from the dropdown. Then select privacy. There is a
slider for low to high security that will allow different types of
cookies to be set or not set as described there. There is also an
advanced setting if you do not like the combination on the easy-to-use
slider. There are also several browsers that are just slight
modifications of IE6. For instance, on the SBC/Yahoo DSL browser, you
will find a settings tab at the top of the page that will allow you to
select internet options as was done on the basic IE6 browser.
3)how can I trick IE or FF not to see them? (if possible!)
On your own computer, just change the settings as described above - no
tricks required. If you mean to do something with the code on the web
page viewed to overcome the setting of cookies as selected by the
browser user, this is not possible in general because of security
considerations. It might be possible for a very good hacker to do
something of the sort, but you can be certain that Microsoft will
release a critical security update to overcome the hack as soon as they
find out about it.
or hide them by javascript?
Why would one want to, except for hacking, when the browser user needs
to be free to select security-privacy settings that meets their
personal needs?
4) any good online resource about them in regards to javascript?
Script often is used to set cookies. If you have something more
specific, someone here likely can answer you. However, the
security-privacy settings on the viewing browser will determine if the
cookies will be allowed to be set.
