A cleaner web experience with Self-Destructing Cookies
Self-Destructing Cookies is a cool little plugin I found yesterday that deletes cookies as soon as you’re done with them. Apps like CCleaner are great, but you need to run them on a schedule, so cookies will linger until the task is run. Self-Destructing Cookies runs as soon as the browser tab is closed and deletes all the cookies associated with that tab. This means all those useless cookies will be deleted right after you leave the site, not several days later. Why would you care? Have you seen the number of cookies that get downloaded from a site these days? It’s both shocking and distressing. I’m not going to sit here in a tin foil hat, but sites are serving up more than just ads. All sorts of "beacons" get written down and whether or not they track your movements, they’re utterly useless, especially after you leave. Of course, none of those get deleted, so they sit there collecting […]
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