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[Night.Ninja]

Since every website we go on ads these parasites to our phone / laptops how often do you delete them?

Or do you even care or do you do you do your browsing incognito / private browser mode?

 

[DESTROYA]

At least once a week

 

[Tesseract]

 

[Gp1]

Is there a way to the delete the tracking cookies without logging out every single website? (Especially the ones that i don't even remember the password anymore...)

 

[InterMusketeer]

If I don't frequent the site or don't trust it, I just open it in a incognito tab. Deleting cookies you don't want (while keeping the ones you do want) is a bit difficult. I think I delete them once every 6 months or so.

 

[The Time Of Mario]

My browser clears them when I close the browser, but I normally go a month without closing.

 

[Leosocial]

Pretty much never, I'm the only one who uses my electronics. I only clear out cookies + cache and stuff when my brower starts getting slow.

 

[AJUMP23]

I never delete cookies, only eat cookies.

 

[Soodanim]

I recently changed my desktop browser to clear cookies on close with a whitelist for my main sites, purely because I'm tired of the tracker pop ups. I've yet to make it just as good on mobile, but maybe it's possible.

Edit: I realise tracking protection is a thing, but it still has its uses as a clean up.

 

[nush]

Usually only when one region locks a website for me.

 

[Hideous Snake]

Honestly the only cookies I delete are the ones sitting in my kitchen.

 

[Night.Ninja]

Don't people find it annoying that anything you search for you get ads for?

 

[Hideous Snake]

Don't people find it annoying that anything you search for you get ads for?

No, because I use Brave and don't get any ads.

 

[Night.Ninja]

No, because I use Brave and don't get any ads.

Does brave have extentions?

 

[dr_octagon]

i always thought cache was pronounced like 'cashay' but it's actually just 'cash'

thanks for coming to my ted talk

 

[Hideous Snake]

Does brave have extentions?

Yup. It's basically Chrome but better

 

[Night.Ninja]

Yup. It's basically Chrome but better

I'll give it a look, does it block ads on youtube?

 

[Anki]

I'll give it a look, does it block ads on youtube?

Install ublock origin and you will never see an ad on youtube.

 

[JSoup]

Very first computer I owned, I didn't bother clearing the cache for the first two years. When I finally did, it was because the cache had gotten so big it was lagging the crap out of the machine. Took the browser almost three hours to dump it.

 

[Elektro Demon]

Maybe once a year. I'm a lazy bastard.

 

[jufonuk]

I just agree to everything and look at really mundane shit so mundane and boring the website people get bored and leave me alone.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

whenever i watch porn

 

[eot]

I use private browsing exclusively.

It's annoying when your browser crashes and you lose all tabs though.

 

[Windle Poons]

Every hour

 

[Soodanim]

I use private browsing exclusively.

It's annoying when your browser crashes and you lose all tabs though.

That seems awfully backwards my good man, would you perchance care to sample a more civilised method?

 

[EverydayBeast]

Good for you if you delete cookies and history.

 

[bender]

 

[eot]

That seems awfully backwards my good man, would you perchance care to sample a more civilised method?

It's good to have all your tabs forcefully closed now and then, like a cleansing fire.

 

[Classicrockfan]

 

[BadBurger]

Maybe once a month I guess? Only when things break. I have to work with many browser-based apps for work (Chrome and Edge) so this is not uncommon.