Next, set your browser to give a prompt before accepting a cookie, then visit all the sites that you use regularly which require log-in procedures, passwords, or other information you are willing to have stored on your computer. Go through whatever procedures are required, accept appropriate cookies, and refuse all others. Now having collected only desirable cookies, your system can be set up to keep those while flushing out any others at the end of each internet session. This is done by making use of the Read-only attribute for files. The files with the Read-only attribute will be the only survivors.
Life is simpler for Netscape users.
All they have to do is mark as Read-only the one file, cookies.txt . Cookies will go into RAM during an internet session but will not be saved when you close up your Netscape browser. You will, however, see an ominous warning at the beginning of the file telling you not to edit. Internet Explorer 5 allows for cookie management in a different way. Here you can arrange to accept cookies from certain sites only.