

At that point, you can toggle it to Block or leave it on Prompt if you don’t find it to be a nuisance. After a few days of browsing, you’ll have likely come across nearly every site you regularly use and will be able to add them to the white list on an as-needed basis. Rather than try to remember every site you might want to add to your white list, this allows you to accept the cookies on a need-to-use basis as they appear. We’re going to temporarily turn on first-party cookie prompting and block third-party cookies. Here, you’ll find a simple radio-button based menu where you can toggle the settings for first-party and third-party cookies. We recommend it if you’re really serious about keeping your privacy on lock down and controlling what third-parties can track about your online behavior, or as a really great exercise in seeing just how many times web sites attempt to load your computer down with cookies. If you block cookies from our site, you'll see that popup more often.Īs such, this is a rather aggressive approach to controlling cookies. For example, we show a popup for our newsletter the first time any user visits our site-but use cookies to keep it from showing up every time. You’ll stop getting custom tailored ads, and you’ll start experiencing intersitial ads more frequently (like pop-over ads and video lead-in ads), as these are frequency controlled by cookies. This does come with a few downsides, however. It’s much easier to specify which sites you want to accept cookies from than it is to perpetually accept and decline the hundreds of cookies your browser is bombarded with. Today, we’re going to look at some quick ways to do this is Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome using whitelists.
