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Posted by Jason on Sunday January 13, @09:48PMfrom the paranoid-geeks dept. If you are a conscientious net surfer such as myself, you probably don't like wearing a tracking collar that records your movement as you browse the net. That's just what cookies can do. However, if you simply disable cookies, you will get those annoying messages about needing to have cookies enabled to browse your favorite sites. No problem... If you use Netscape, you can passively accept all cookies and promptly have them dumped to the bit bucket otherwise known as /dev/null. Here is an excerpt from the man page for null: The null device accepts and reads data as any ordinary (and willing) file - but throws it away. The length of the null device is always zero. All you have to do is create a symbolic link for your cookies file which is linked to /dev/null. The effect is that your browser accepts all cookies but re-routes them to /dev/null which happily sends them to oblivion. You will have to do this for each user on your system. Login as the user (in my case jason) and issue the following commands: $ cd ~jason/.netscape To learn more about the commands used in the post, please refer to their man pages. man cd < | >
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