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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsChecked out & removed selected Cookies (watching us). Shudder.
Low-tech, here. After all these years I lucked into the Cookies list and gingerly Removed some, the ones that were obvious, such as behemoths (AOL, Time Warner) and Faux Propaganda Network.So every news item I click into embeds a Cookie? I left the DU, Media Matters, etc.
A lot of things for advertising sites. If anything sounded icky, like "sticky ads" they were BURNED (as Seth MEYERS says).
But most of the stuff, who knows what it is, and this isn't like deleting files from the Registry, is it? Won't affect my machine? I just went through a hassle with Adobe Flash (the whole epic is in "Computer Help" group) and don't want another one. Will Removals speed things up at all? What did I do?!1 Good, bad, or nothing?
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)UTUSN
(70,652 posts)Hah: How 'bout the way I tossed off the High-tech word "Registry"?!1 Like I know what I'm talking about, but all I know about it is that if I do *one* thing to it my 5-yrs old machine is GONE with the wind that blew through Georgia!1
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)ditto on the tyvm
My Dell is over 10 years old. I use Auslogics BoostSpeed to correct and clean out my pesky problems. It's outta date but it works well enough for my needs.
blogslut
(37,985 posts)...the only negative effect from deleting cookies is with sites where you have to log in via a password. When you delete the cookie you have to log in again.
UTUSN
(70,652 posts)blogslut
(37,985 posts)You can do it through your browser.
Here's how to do it in Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
IE:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11