How to Block Cookies Except The One You Used For Sites

How to Block Cookies Except The One You Used For Sites

Cookies are small piece of data or file, which was sent from a website, then stored in system, while a user is browsing a website. When the user browses the same site in later times, the stored data of cookie(s) has been retrieved and notify the website for the previous activities of the user. Cookies either carrying not viruses, or installing mal-wares. 

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.        

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. 

The Great Global Food Gap!

The Great Global Food Gap!

A study with pictures showing what the sharp contrast of eating habits for 24 families living around the world in one week.

In Bhutan, Namgay family from the village of Shingkhey costing around £3.20 for their weekly shop.

A refugee camp in drought-hit Chad, north Africa, six members in Abu Bakar family are forced to last an entire week on a few bags of grain, air-dried mutton and a few jerrycans of water, costing around £37 a week.

Families in Ecuador, South America, such as Aymes, also struggle to survive on their measly provisions. They have just £20 to buy a week's worth of food - usually cabbage and yams for soup - to feed a family of nine.

Germany: The Melander family from Bargteheide who spend around £320 on their weekly shop

Luxembourg: The Kuttan-Kasses of Erpeldange who spend around £298 pounds a week on food

France: The Le Moines of Montreuil who spend around £269 every week on food

Australia: The Browns pictured with a week's worth of food costing £242

Canada: The Melansons of Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory, who spend around £220 a week on food

America: The Revis family from North Carolina spend £220 on the weekly food shop which includes several fast food take-aways

Japan: The Ukita family from Kodaira City with their £200 weekly food shop

Greenland: The Madsens of Cap Hope spend around £177 a week on food

Italy: The Manzos family spend £167 a week on food including fish, pasta, fruit, vegetables and soft drinks

Britain: The Bainton family of Cllingbourne Ducis spend £155 on their weekly food shop. They list their favourite foods as avocado, prawn cocktail and chocolate fudge cake with cream

Kuwait: The Al Haggan family from Kuwait City with their £140 weekly shop

Mexico: The Casales family from Cuernavaca who spend around £115 a week on food

United States: The Caven family from California who spend around £103 a week on food

China: The Dong family from Beijing who spend around £99 on food every week

Poland: The Sobczynscy family from Konstancin-Jeziorna who spend around £99 on their weekly shop 

Turkey: The Celiks of Istanbul who spend around £93 a week on food

Guatemala: The Mendozas of Todos Santos who spend around £48 a week on their weekly food shop

Egypt: The Ahmed family from Cairo who spend around £43 a week on food

Chad, North Africa: The Aboubakar family from Darfur, Sudan, spend £37 a week on food to feed six people

Mongolia: The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar who spend around £25 a week on food

India: The Patkars of Ujjain who spend around £25 a week on food

Ecuador: The Ayme family pictured with a week's worth of food costing £20 at their home in Tingo

Mali: The Natomos of Kouakourou spend around £16 on food

Bhutan: The Namgay family from Shingkhey Village with their weekly shop costing around £3.20

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319825/The-great-global-food-gap-Families-world-photographed-weekly-shopping-reveal-cost-ranges-3-20-320.html#ixzz2SUdYIpJ0

How to Quit from Twitter, Google+, Facebook & other social networks!

How to Quit from Twitter, Google+, Facebook & other social networks!

There could be a few computer users, who doesn't have at least one social networking account but everyone loves Facebook or Twitter, which were so prevalent these days!  

Signing up an account is easy but closing is not always so simple!! I'd like to share through this post 'how to quit from some Social Networks'?

Before taking the steps to terminate your accounts, you should have to consider, twice, which keeping you to have at least a record of your online activity!

Quit From Twitter Account:

Go to the Twitter website, then log into your account.

Click the Cog-Wheel icon, which is in the upper right of the page then select Settings. 

At the bottom of the page, click on 'Deactivate my account'.

Now a warning message will be displayed. Read the message carefully in which they indicated after deactivation, your user data will be kept for 30 days then your account will be permanently deleted. You can also reactivate the account within the deactivation period of 30 days by logging back in.

Quit From Facebook Account:

If you really want to quit from 'Facebook', the most popular social network service, then two options are standing in front of you to decide. 

The first option basically keeps your accounts on-hold status and enables you to reactivate, whenever you've changed your mind. To start the process, visit the deactivation page.                       

Now you should click the radio button(s) to tell 'Reason for leaving' and also specify something -like, have another account etc.,- in the box of 'Please explain further'. After this process, click 'Confirm' button. Now you'll be vanished from Facebook and your Facebook friends would not be able to contact you until you've decided to reactivate. (The reactivation could be performed by logging into your account, as normally). 

The second option will delete your account, completely, then you would not be able to reactivate or retrieve any of your contents. 

To delete your account completely, visit account removal page  and click 'Delete My Account' button. 
 
Now you'll be asked to provide your password then fill the letters of captcha.    

             

After these process, click 'Okay' button. Now your account will be in deactivation mode for two weeks then will be erased forever.   

Quit From Flickr Account: 

To delete your account and online photos, log into your account by visiting Flickr.com, then click the smiley icon from upper right corner and choose Settings from the drop down menu.

Now you'll be taken to another page. Scroll down to bottom of the page and find out for 'Delete your Flickr account'. 

Now make confirmation by clicking 'OK-NEXT' button that you'd like to delete your account.                      

Quit From Google+ Account: 

Log into your Google account by using Google website. 
Click over on your account avatar image, which is in upper right of the page and then click 'Account link'.

 

Now you'll be taken to another window then scroll down and find out for 'Account Management' portion. Under Account Management, two options are listed. If you just want to abandon Google+, then click the link: ‘Delete profile and remove related Google+ features’.  

Now you'll be directed to another window 'Delete Google+ content or your entire Google profile', which has two options.

Now you can choose 'Delete Google+ content'  to delete your Google+ content and click over on ‘Remove selected services’ button. 

Alternatively, you can select the option ‘Delete your entire Google profile’. This enables to wipe out your presence from not only Google+, but also YouTube and Google Buzz.
Google also enables to completely delete your account. Click over on ‘Close account and delete all services and information associated with it’ in the Account Management section. This process will deleting a large amount of data and you'll be asked for a confirmation that you want to proceed.

Tick the boxes from Google AdSense to YouTube then enter your password. You've also to tick ‘Yes, I want to delete my account’ option before you click 'DELETE GOOGLE ACCOUNT' button. 

Quit from Other Accounts:  

AccountKiller is a website, which provides details for how to delete all the online accounts and it is organized as White-list (a simple account deletion process); Gray-list (little troublesome process) and Black-list (account deletion not-allowed).             

I insist, again, to reconsider twice or thrice before terminating your accounts, which keeping you to have at least a record of your online activity!