Maybe there is something I should disable in my browser, but youtube, which I visit a lot, has been doing an amazing, and maybe disturbing bit about tossing me certain links.

On one hand, it is very amusing to see links I am interested in pop up when I hit the youtube link. On the other hand, it might be disturbing to some to the extent to which some web site track you.

Just a point of interests, or to some, concern.

Youtube just might be the most dangerous animal and stalking robot on the planet, as most just go there innocently. View a clip and be off with it.

NOT. YT records almost every hit............that is what they do to make a living. The extent to which, and what they record, and who they sell it to might interest you.

They are tied in with Google, and when I do a search on most anything, in the next few days, there are popup ads that are related to same.

I personally do not precieve this as a threat to my existence.

I fight off internet attacks every day. Some are just bot attacks.
Some ask me for personal info.

But, it might concern for some folks that wonder why ads pop up in certain places that have an uncanny resemblance to their personal interests.

Just sayin............

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I know. My cookies follow me around in targeted ads. I looked at this and that then I got to see them in ads. Just the stuff I looked at. What I would like to know is how to remove certain cookies without doing a blanket delete.

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I assume you like me are having a home page at YouTube, Mark.

Because you are logged in there when accessing this page, really www.youtube.com, you quite soon realize that someone loves to put up your likings based on the preferences you have by means of selection of specific contents.

Because both of us as well as many others right now choose to use the web as a tool, only valuable contents and appropriate behavior when it comes to its use is assumed.

There are both advantages as well as disadvantages by having this feature selected. Cookies are mandatory when surfing many web pages and therefore you will not be able to avoid or skip this feature completely. When you are using the web, your privacy is only guaranteed from your computer(s) to the modem or router being used to access it.

Therefore having a hardware as well as a software firewall installed, is an essential feature.

Despite the web being a big place, you always may have the ability of making a mess of the whole place using the knowledge you may have. If you ever happen to be doing such a thing, at least you may be able to be told so from your service provider. My best assumption is that noone at Google will ever bother about neither you or me personally when it comes to surfing habits, but when making specific choices of contents, you are able to leave a personal comment on the page when it comes to both likings as well as dislikings.

Software cookies comes in several variants or flavors. Because this is an essential part of using the web, I will try finding out more about how it is working, but for now I am back after a home cleanup and need to continue for a day or two before doing anything more about this.

Cookies may be deleted from a system using an appropriate software for such a purpose. They are not registry based.

Right now I can not give any recommendations here either, but I will be having a look at this as well a little later on. For now, the Windows registry using Windows Ultimate is not directly accessible, but keying in Regedit using the DOS command line, or perhaps looking it up in the Windows or Windows\System32 directory may possibly locate the executable file.

Again I will have a look at this later.

Also when using Windows XP, Regedit also is available as Regedit32.exe.

Windows XP and Windows Ultimate are two somewhat different environments when it comes to the running of tasks.

The first one had a quite big flaw in its user interface when using it and therefore is not my favorite any longer. The processor on this computer does not accept Windows XP as a running operating system.

But, most of what I have resides on my previous Windows XP discs. That also includes almost 10 years of running BOINC and Seti@home. It will be 12 years in some two months from now. Apparently the 32-bits installation disc for Windows 7 Ultimate has become broken and not being available from my vendor.

I will have to use the discs I am already having and currently being used.

Also, I am running on only one Windows 7 64 partition as well as one Windows 7 32-bits partition right now. Two big partitions only bootable by means of Windows XP are located on one of the discs currently being used. The first of these two apparently went totally down a while ago.

The second one still has most of its contents accessible, except from the local user directory in Documents and Settings, which is not accesssible, even with Administrator rights or privileges.

You may love the contents you may have, but when something goes wrong it may end up being the worst of circumstances. If such a thing happens, complete recovery of everything may not be possible until some time has passed in the meantime.

Try privdog and noscript.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Maybe I just am so locked down I am not afraid.
Maybe I am just a bit too arrogant.
I am not afraid. I have some firewalls that none have yet to penetrate.

Try Trend Micro Antivirus +....gets the job done, no pissy interactions.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Sorry, Mark.

But I started here at 6 AM in the morning.

That is not the best time of day whether or not you choose to be doing something.

Also silly discussions like this?

No, in my opinion.

BTW: This thread was started by Mark and relates to the subject of Windows cookies.

I will go out shopping and enjoy the upcoming evening instead. That is part of my contribution (and show).

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