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Re: UK websites place average of 44 cookies on first visit

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's running a headless browser with JS enabled so it should be there... not sure why it doesn't pick it up. Thanks for the mention :-)

If you are running PhantomJs, did you encounter any issues like memory leaks and socket errors ? I'd be interested in the solutions you used to solve issues like that if it's not proprietary / private.

We're running HTMLUnit [1]

[1] http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/

Re: UK websites place average of 44 cookies on first visit

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post #5

you can keep a whitelist of allowed permament/session/temporary cookies with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cslite-mod/

That sounds similar to Self-Destructing Cookies[1], which I'm using. Has anyone tried both and can compare them? 1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...

I've been using Self-Destructing along with BetterPrivacy[1] which handles LSO (Flash cookies) that are usually not available in the browser

1. https://nc.ddns.us/extensions.html

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