What's an LS cookie?

[ozgoat]

I recently installed a Firefox add on called "greater privacy". It claims to remove 'vicious cookies" which would not usually be removed when I do a clean up.

That made me think; I wasn't aware there was any such animal as a 'vicious cookie". Then whenever I closed Firefox,that programme advised it wanted to remove x number of LS cookies,but that I could keep them if I wanted.

I have no idea what that message meant, so I deleted the programme.

I hate feeling ignorant,so would be most grateful if someone could explain

The only reference I can find to an LS cookie is Little Snitch, but you'd only get those if you visit Little Snitch Talk or have visited in the past.

There is a firewall prog for Apple Macs called Little Snitch. Not sure how that would produce a cookie.

I prefer to manage cookies myself. In FF go to Tools>Options>Privacy>Show Cookies and delete those from sites that you don't regularly visit.

Also, you can elect to accept 3rd party cookies or not and choose to delete them when FF closes. Not a bad option.

Cookies are not usually dangerous. There are Flash-based cookies that can be, but I don't know much about them at this stage.