'Last Hour'

Ooh, I don't like the sound of 'swarms of cookies'.....[shock horror emoticon!]

Yes they will slow it down no end. If you can find them (look in the help for your browser) you can go through them and delete at least some.

Anything that sounds like an ad analyser for a start.
Anything with a strange incomprehensible combination of letters.
Anything clearly from a site you know you visited once ages ago.
If they have their expiry date listed and it is past, then obviously they can't possibly be useful.

Keep anything from your bank, from Gransnet or anywhere else that you have to log into, at least until you are sure you don't need it.

If you even halve the list, you have done something to clear the decks.

List of cookies which my AVG anti-virus (free and very good) regularly destroys as "potentailly dangerous tracking cookies" - Revsci, yieldmanager, Serving-sys, Atdmt.

Many others gather statistics on site viewing (not personalised so not dangerous but not useful either) Doubleclick is one that I remember, appearing frequently, there are many more but I have deleted them recently so do not have them to quote. Will post again after the computer has been on for a while and they have silted up again.

elegran is that why I have mumsnet entries on my Facebook page. I wondered where they came from!

I don't know anything about Facebook but I would not be surprised.

Off now to catch bus to the Gyle so don't ask me any more difficult questions.

TTFN

Thanx Elegran

Enjoy the rest of your day ...think I might investigate to see what cookies are lurking on my computer

Enjoy your shopping, elegran

Got the sunshine back, I see!

Now that was a bad idea ...I've pages of stuff to read on what one might/could/should do with cookies!! [headache] emoticon

Jacey I suspect you could dump the lot and any that matter would be downloaded again.

Famous last words.

"Last hour" has gone funny again. Clicking on it takes me to "search results"