Privacy stealing Bitches

[Twitchin Kitten]

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If you are using FireFox or Safari browsers you can surf the net securely. I just spent an hour online with Apple support trying to find where my cookies are. I'm so happy I bought an Apple instead of a windows machine. All my stuff is in one place.

OK for your private browsing on FF and Safari, go to: Tools > Start Private Browsing

This will allow you to browse the internet and not let those third party cookies install on your system.

To remove the cookies you already have in there, go to: FireFox > Preferences
A new window (pop up) will open and you will have 7 tabs at the top. One of them should be SECURITY - click that.
In here you will see a dropdown that says, "Firefox will" and next to it by default it should say Remember History. Here you can choose how you want your browsing history to be remembered or not. This is a personal preference.

Below that you will see: "Firefox will remember your browsing, download, form and search history, and keep cookies from web sites you visit.

You may want to 'clear your recent history' or 'remove individual cookies'.

Clicking either of these will open a new window and you can see your history and your cookies.

I have cleared all my cookies and when I relogged into Facebook, I now have no less than 100 cookies in here!

I will now be clearing these out more often than I normally do.

Now IE is a little different and Windows computers are even more complex where those cookies are stored. On my Apple, everything is contained in the program's file and unlike a PC machine, I never, ever have to defrag or do a disk cleanup.

So, to find your dirt in your PC Internet Explorer, and all other browsers:

Open your IE go to Tools >internet options - a window will pop up.
On the GENERAL tab of this small window, in the middle you will see a section called BROWSING HISTORY. In here are two buttons: DELETE / SETTINGS. Click delete. A new small window opens. In here you can clean out all that stuff or keep what you want. You should clear out all Temporary INternet files, cookies and history for now.

OK, so now you cleared all that out and you think you're done? Nope. Now you gotta find where all these cookies were installed on your computer! Where are they?

Minimize or close your browser and go to:
1. Select and open My Computer.
2. Select and open the C Drive.
3. Select and open Documents and Settings.
4. Select and open your identity. Note: We can't be more specific here as it will depend on how your computer was set up. Usually it will have your name in it.
5. Select and open Local Settings.
6. Select and open Temporary Internet Files Folder. <-- (thanks Vizzy)

The temporary internet files folder is where they store those secret cookies. Also note that if you deleted your temporary internet files from the above browser cleaning, it DOES NOT clear them all out.

If you're using Windows Vista or W7, the path should be the same or close to it.

You guys should be cleaning out your cookies, temp files and browser history on a regular basis.
You should also do a twice monthly disk cleanup and defrag to get the most out of your computer and eliminate the junk accumulated on the sneak. It will also boost your performance time and help keep locking up and slowness down to a minimum.