Another thing you can do is to dump your cookies once in a while. In Mac's that are running Safari as the browser, this is really easy, and you can go in and look at the cookies individually. (You will see three from OCF) But when Chester taught me to do this the first time, I went into do it there were more than 9,000 cookies collecting data on me in my browser. (WTF?) Many of them were likely benign, many of them were collecting info about me that when I went back to their site, would get downloaded. (You can't know which are which and you should just dump them all and let everything pile up again.) What amazed me ( remember I work on the Internet much of my days researching and more) that a week later I had several hundred cookies in there again. OCF's cookies only remember you and what you have already viewed on the forums, we don't have access to them because we didn't design them to be data collectors for us� what would a small non-profit do with that information if selling it was off the table? But ours do make your experience here better, they remember what you have read and what you have not, which when there are years of postings from others and your own, is useful. They remember that you have a password and are allowed to be here. But collect data that we download? No way. Unfortunately OCF is in the minority here, and most are not like ours. But this is the real world of the web, and if you set your browser to not accept cookies, some sites won't even work for you at all. In Safari you can also ask cookies to "do not track me" which the ethical companies honor, the others do not. Cookies and tracking is part of the Internet. There is no way around it except to clean them out all the time, or to not browse the Internet, which in the information age is not a choice really.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.