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AVG and tracking cookies?

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♥Betty Boo from Dundee♥

♥Betty Boo from Dundee♥ Report 13 May 2008 15:50

Thank you James, Peter, Ivy and Budgie for all your replies, my scan is due to run in the next hour so I will try and see if there are any not so good cookies when the scan is finished. I just hope I can tell the good from the bad and the ugly!!

Betty

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 13 May 2008 09:38

Ivy,

Yes, you are quite correct. This is a good reason not to delete them.

There is a perception that cookies are bad, but this is not necessarily so. Most modern websites won't function without them enabled.

Ivy

Ivy Report 13 May 2008 07:03

I could be wrong, but I think it is the tracking cookies on Ancestry that not only save me typing in name and password but also remember that I would (for instance) like to view 1861 images at 100% instead of 50% size and produce lists of matching names on a search at 50 a page rather than 10 per page.

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 13 May 2008 06:57

I disagree slightly. Check first to see if they are for trusted sites which you use on a regular basis, in which case it is better to leave them as they are.

If you don't recognise the site, then delete.

James

James Report 13 May 2008 03:20

Yes, definitely delete them
James

♥Betty Boo from Dundee♥

♥Betty Boo from Dundee♥ Report 13 May 2008 03:11

When I run my AVG anti virus, it comes up with a whole load of tracking cookies after it has completed the scan, should I delete these cookies?

Going to bed now but will check replies later, thanks in advance.

Betty