How to Block Cookies Except The One You Used For Sites
Cookies are useful for our browsing experiences such as saving time from the hassles of logging sites every time, storing our shopping cart info and so on. The disadvantage of cookie is they're doing a bad roll as to track and gather the info of the user, without his explicit knowledge, then helping the advertisers to built profiles of user.
Through this article, I'd like to share 'how could we restrain the cookies from its misbehavior, except the one we actually need for our work!'
Internet Explorer: When using IE, we've to look two main things that were:
1. managing site status i.e., to white-listing a site and
2. toggling cookies acceptance.
To make white-listed a site, click on Tools>Internet Options>Privacy>Sites.
Now a dialog box named 'Per Site Privacy Actions' will be opened. From this dialog box you could arrange the website status as to white or block.
Filling of every white-listed sites, by manual, is an inefficient way unless using semi-automated process will toggle the cookies setting. To use the semi-automated process, go again Tools>Internet Options>Privacy then click Advanced button. A dialog box, 'Advanced Privacy Settings', will be opened like pictured below.
From 'Advanced Privacy Settings' dialog box, you could toggle the cookies setting, by using the radio buttons of First-party and Third-party cookies. Temporarily, turn on the First-party Cookies to Prompt mode and Block the Third-party Cookies.
Rather remembering every site to be added in whitelist, this process helps to accept the cookies in the basis of need-to-use as they appeared. Few days later of your browsing, you'll come across the sites you used, regularly, will be added in the white list, which is in the basis of need-to-use. Now, you can toggle the sites to Prompt mode or to Block - if the sites, you found, really nuisance.
Rather remembering every site to be added in whitelist, this process helps to accept the cookies in the basis of need-to-use as they appeared. Few days later of your browsing, you'll come across the sites you used, regularly, will be added in the white list, which is in the basis of need-to-use. Now, you can toggle the sites to Prompt mode or to Block - if the sites, you found, really nuisance.
Mozilla Firefox: has built-in controls, by default, to manage the cookies.
We've to go through the built-in controls to manage the cookies.
Click Tools>Options then click on Privacy Tab.
Now under History, open the drop down menu of Firefox will .... and choose 'Use custom settings for history'.
Now remove the tick mark from the box of Accept third-party cookies, then the drop down box of Keep until be toggled to ask me every time and press OK.
After this process, you will be prompted every time for the cookies, which attempting to lodge into your browser, to be allowed or blocked. As for the prompting method, you may come across to the sites that you've allowed will be in white listed.
Through Exceptions button you may view the cookies list, which has entered manually. The button Show Cookies will reveal you the detailed reports of cookies and able to delete manually as you wish.
A Firefox link, cookies manager plus will allow you to explore deeper the cookies such as editing, import / export and etc.,
Google Chrome
Cookie Settings could be accessed from Chrome's Settings (page). Settings (page) then go down for Privacy. Under Privacy, click and open Content settings... button.
Content settings window will be opened, as pictured below, and it has few options under Cookies.
- Allow local data to be set (Recommended) - means, allow all cookies.
- Keep local data only until I quit my browser - means, keep all cookies till browser's exit.
- Block sites from setting any data - means, block all cookies.
- Block third-party cookies and site data - means, allow first party cookies to be set and block all third party cookies.
Now you've limitation of abilities over on these four options, and make tick 'Block third-party cookies and site data', which allows first party cookies to be set and block all third party cookies.
Installing an add-on, Vanilla Cookie Manager, will automatically (or manually - if you prefer) remove unwanted cookies and allows to select the cookies that you wish to keep as whitelist.
Vanilla Cookie Manager will filling up the gaps of Chrome's cookie management toolbox by allowing an easy whitelist management service as you visit the websites will have a small white cookie in the address bar. Click over on the icon to allow as to whitelist or block from the site. In addition, Vanilla Cookie Manager will also delete the unwanted cookies and save the whitelisted cookies from deletion.
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