Google cookies

Flamsmark flamsmark at gmail.com
Sat Feb 13 20:03:28 UTC 2010


On 13 February 2010 14:16, Jon Cosby <jon at jcosby.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 23:45 -0500, andrew at torproject.org wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:27:26AM -0800, jon at jcosby.com wrote 0.3K
> bytes in 10 lines about:
> > : I just noticed that on closing a Firefox session, google cookies are
> not
> > : removed. I have to toggle Tor to remove them. Is this normal?
> >
> > Do you mean toggle torbutton?  It depends what you have told torbutton
> > to do or how you have setup firefox to manage cookies.
> >
>
> Yes, I'm using the Torbutton, with the default cookie settings (clear on
> toggle, etc.) The google cookies are the only ones that require a manual
> click to clear. All others are removed on closing and resetting Firefox.
>
> Are you referring to the Google cookies that Torbutton uses to avoid having
to fill in CAPTCHAs every time you load a Google page? Those are the same
across Torbutton users, so they won't identify you.
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