Cookies

[stevoman 2]

Require some advice please!

What are "COOKIES'? How do I delete them, if advised to do so! Thanks.

[jacko 8,822]

Require some advice please!

What are "COOKIES'? How do I delete them, if advised to do so! Thanks.

Cookies are small files left by websites on your computer that track you.

Few are malicious and some can help you as when you revisit a site they already know a bit about you.

Wikkie cookie.

 

Some anti-virus software will list tracking cookies when you do a scan and give you the option of deleting them.

 

Firefox gives you the option to block them, and delete them under Tools-Options-Privacy-Show Cookies-Remove All.

 

Some sites will not work though if you block their cookies.

Edited March 5, 2011 by jacko

[joekicker 53]

They are small TEXT files, most cookies - and most cookies are good. Cookies are what brings you back to Pattaya Talk where you left off last time, for example.

 

edit The above is an example of what cookies can do and what they do do. I've never even checked if this forum has cookies - most do.

 

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Edited March 6, 2011 by joekicker

[jacko 8,822]

They are small TEXT files, most cookies - and most cookies are good. Cookies are what brings you back to Pattaya Talk where you left off last time, for example.

 

edit The above is an example of what cookies can do and what they do do. I've never even checked if this forum has cookies - most do.

 

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Interesting Joe, so how does PT remember where I left off when I move to another computer????

[Jack Scagnetti 502]

use ccleaner

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

[joekicker 53]

Interesting Joe, so how does PT remember where I left off when I move to another computer????

 

Yeah, that's why the edit. Rather obviously it also keeps internal track of users.

 

I could find out how PT works and if it has cookies, and maybe I will, but as I edited in, not now.

 

Cookies in general are small text files that HELP you get around the web, and in and out of websites. It's actually hard to do it without cookies. Cookies in general do no harm, and aren't capable of doing harm, being tiny text files only.

 

There are cookies that harm. If you are warned about a/some harmful cookie(s), it will be by software that also can get rid of them, so not to worry about details on this.

 

"Cleanup" programs like CCleaner ask if you want them to remove ALL cookies. I always say no. I find cookies too helpful to start all over again with every site I go to that uses them. Others will have different opinions about this.

 

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[atlas2 4,329]

All computers give you an option to delete your browsing history, cookies etc.

 

I do it from time to time just to tidy up.

 

 

................ Last time along with my cookiesI found loads of old 'pastry' that needed flushing out.

 

 

Have a mooch around your computer options stevoman.

[MM 6,562]

Interesting Joe, so how does PT remember where I left off when I move to another computer????

 

It doesn't, unless you have an existing cookie for PT on the other computer too. If you do, then it will remember your login details if you haven't logged out, and you said "Remember Me" when you logged in.

 

That's about all it remembers, as far as I know.

 

And to the general question of whether cookies should be enabled for pattayatalk or most other forums, the answer is YES. If you don't enable cookies, I suspect you will have to log in every time you load a page.

[glynbuk 29]

use ccleaner

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

 

 

Agreed

 

CCleaner is great, i run my computer on Windows 7 operating and have had it for about 4 months, it was

running slow the other day so i ran CCCleaner and it deleted 4811 MB of crap and its back to full speed now(ish)

 

Always remember it will remove password cookies so make sure you know your passwords or have done the "Remember me"

[stevoman 2]

Thanks to everyone for advice/information! Anyone advise me how to remove my "Warning %"!

Edited March 6, 2011 by stevoman

[villayouth 37]

Thanks to everyone for advice/information! Anyone advise me how to remove my "Warning %"!

 

You could try cleaning MMs cock for him

[MM 6,562]

You could try cleaning MMs cock for him

 

It hasn't worked for you!

[villayouth 37]

It hasn't worked for you!

WELL IM STILL HERE AINT I

 

[MM 6,562]

WELL IM STILL HERE AINT I

 

 

 

And so are your warnings.

[jacko 8,822]

It doesn't, unless you have an existing cookie for PT on the other computer too. If you do, then it will remember your login details if you haven't logged out, and you said "Remember Me" when you logged in.

 

That's about all it remembers, as far as I know.

 

And to the general question of whether cookies should be enabled for pattayatalk or most other forums, the answer is YES. If you don't enable cookies, I suspect you will have to log in every time you load a page.

I don't believe so MM. Obviously my login details are not on another computer.... but which posts I have read seems to carry over.

I actually thought YOU posted such a fact here some years ago.

 

I just did a quick test by logging off and going back to the FLB board on the TGF's computer, and there I picked up where I left off. I even read a new post on her PC, then returned to mine, and your board had recorded that I had read that post! Clever stuff.

Edited March 7, 2011 by jacko

[joekicker 53]

The regular user here has six cookies from PT on his computer(s). I believe you'll find, jacko, that if you go to a totally different computer you've never used before, and that computer has never logged into PT, then you'll have to go through quite a bit of jiggering before you're synched up again.

 

The program/forum reads cookies to identify you and synch your settings and recent readings. They may be old cookies. Without those cookies, it doesn't seem to know much except that you're a real user, once you give it name and password again.

 

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[MM 6,562]

Jacko, once you are logged in, the forum software uses its own database to determine what posts are new since your last login. Cookies are not involved.

[jacko 8,822]

The regular user here has six cookies from PT on his computer(s). I believe you'll find, jacko, that if you go to a totally different computer you've never used before, and that computer has never logged into PT, then you'll have to go through quite a bit of jiggering before you're synched up again.

 

The program/forum reads cookies to identify you and synch your settings and recent readings. They may be old cookies. Without those cookies, it doesn't seem to know much except that you're a real user, once you give it name and password again.

 

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I have 15.....

As MM said, the forum software seems to keep me synched up.

[joekicker 53]

I have 15.....

 

I can beat that by 5 on this machine I'm currently using, but I have six that are current and actually used by Invision, on each of two computers I use frequently and checked yesterday. So I think six is the "real" number that the forum software serves up and actively uses for various purposes that may not be nefarious.

 

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[stevoman 2]

The reason I asked this question in the 1st place was I am having a problem with accessing the Pattaya Talk opening page on some days no matter what I try! Other days like today absolutely no problem!

Someone advised me to clear my "Cookies" but up to now not bothered as provided I can access twice a week that is sufficient!

[Samsonite 181]

You can delete all your cookies, every last one of them and the board software, as MM pointed out, will remember where you were when you last signed off. I have all my browsers set up to accept cookies only for that session and to delete all cookies when the browser is closed.

As one site can read the cookies from another site to see where you have been, it is possible with Opera and Firefox (and most likely others) to clear out all cookies, and your cache if you like, while you are online with just a couple of clicks of your mouse.

 

If you are a ms-windows user, CCleaner, as previously mentioned, is an excellent tool for cleaning out cookies and temporary Internet files.

Edited March 8, 2011 by Samsonite

[Samsonite 181]

Agreed

 

CCleaner is great, i run my computer on Windows 7 operating and have had it for about 4 months, it was

running slow the other day so i ran CCCleaner and it deleted 4811 MB of crap and its back to full speed now(ish)

 

Always remember it will remove password cookies so make sure you know your passwords or have done the "Remember me"

CCleaner is a great utility for ms-winblows users. I might be wrong, but isn't it possible to set up CCleaner so it doesn't delete your passwords?

Edited March 8, 2011 by Samsonite

[joekicker 53]

CCleaner is a great utility for ms-winblows users. I might be wrong, but isn't it possible to set up CCleaner so it doesn't delete your passwords?

 

Yes, you can tweak CrapC almost any way you want. It is definitely worth a download, it is definitely worth having, and it is useful for everyone at some point. It will or will not remove all cookies, for example - you tell it which.

 

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