does anything bad happen if you delete all your cookies? does it speed your computers browsing? TECHIES ATTACK!!!!!
― Mike Hanle y (mike), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)
is that just a fancy term for "eat your cookies"? because I just deleted a few myself and they were quite scrumptious
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)
If you delete ALL your cookies, all of the preferences you've saved at various web sites will be gone, which means you'll have to reconfigure them the next time you log in to that site. For example, the name and email setting here at ILX is saved in a cookie, and you'd have to re-enter it later if you wiped your cookies. Same at any other sites that remember anything about you without you having to actually enter via user/pass.
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)
is your system running faster now, s1utsky?
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)
no, but it feels like they're running through my system a little too fast if you get my meaning
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)
It won't speed your web-browsing much, no.
The one good thing about deleting your cookies is that you'll get rid of some eventual tracking-buns that have dorked after you for a while. but hey, that's why we have adaware!
The downside to deleting them is that sites where you have "autologin" etc borked up, will lose that information and you'll have to reactivate it. But that's no big deal.
I know some people just delete them and deactivate the whole system, because they hate the idea of other computers going "Heyyy, that dude is back, man, he sure visits a lot of Teletubbies sites!"
XPOST:
Sean said most, but usually sites also have some information logged about you at their place, so if you have the login you can quickly activate a cookie and have all your old sessions as they were.
Usually cookies just include an ID to know who you are.
Of course, another downside to cookise is that if other people use the computer, they might be able to go directly into sites you have "auto-login" on.
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)
Were those bran cookies you deleted, s1utsky?
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)
no time to answer, I gotta go auto-login
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)
this sounds like something that you wouldn't want done to you in jail
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)
how many people do you folks know who use the phrase "get your cookies" as a sexual euphemism?
― Ludwig Van Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)
I deleted mine the other day cause I thought it'd do good stuff but no good stuff happened and now I can't remember any passwords to the good stuff I was logged into GOD DAMN.
― penelope, Thursday, 6 November 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)
dont worry about that,simply consult where you wrote on note what as the words for the webs to site.
― Mike Hanle y (mike), Thursday, 6 November 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)
so much for my attempt at bumping this together w/ the bukakke thread for connection purposes
― L(E^24) (Leee), Friday, 7 November 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)