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Re:Collusion: A browser addon to demo how websites track you... by pwg on Friday July 08, 2011 @04:57AM (#2741720)
Give the "Cookie Monster" extension a try. You can browse with a default "no-accept-cookies" policy, but at browse time decide to (based upon the domains of the cookies):

1) temporarily allow cookies from some domains; 2) permanently allow cookies from some domains.

Gradually you can build up a whitelist of just only those sites where you will allow cookies, even while blocking their own advertisers/trackers from setting cookies, while keeping everything else off.

Re:Collusion: A browser addon to demo how websites track you... by there on Friday July 08, 2011 @10:31AM (#2742540)
did you read my comment? i'm using cookie monster.

blocking by default and only allowing the current domain breaks quite a few sites that refuse to work without an active session cookie. some break subtly and some throw you into a redirection loop. that is why i accept all by default, but firefox marks them as session cookies so they don't survive across browsing sessions, and using cookie monster i whitelist a few domains.

Re:Collusion: A browser addon to demo how websites track you... by retube on Friday July 08, 2011 @05:32AM (#2741776)
I take a simpler approach. Just deny all third-party cookies, allow them for current host.