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Is Spyware Blaster worth it?

Berryracer

Berryracer

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I usually use SUPERAntiSpyware to remove the harmful/tracking cookies from my browser

I have ADBlock Plus and DoNotTrackMe installed on Pale Moon but I still get some tracking cookies so SUPERAntiSpyware takes care of those

is there any need of installing Spyware blaster? I installed it, and the tracking cookies I get are less, but they are still there so I am wondering if Spyware Blaster is needed or if it is useless and would slow down my browsing?
 
I used it years ago. I didn't consider it valuable enough to continue using it, but it didn't cause problems either.
 
lxskllr said:
I used it years ago. I didn't consider it valuable enough to continue using it, but it didn't cause problems either.
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Same here. IIRC, I used some other program after the fact which caught some things after it reported finishing its scan. But, this was several years ago.
 
BTW berryracer, while we are on the subject, what do you think about the "trackers" found by Superantispyware (SAS)?

Reason I ask is I have been in the same situation, using DNTM and having SAS say it found trackers. I switched to Ghostery and SAS reports after a week were about the same.

Finally I just decided to disable 3rd party cookies and be done with it. I'm just not sure that the few results SAS continues to come up with are a legitimate concern. And I just don't have the time to run it all the time anyway.
 
berryracer said:
I usually use SUPERAntiSpyware to remove the harmful/tracking cookies from my browser

I have ADBlock Plus and DoNotTrackMe installed on Pale Moon but I still get some tracking cookies so SUPERAntiSpyware takes care of those

is there any need of installing Spyware blaster? I installed it, and the tracking cookies I get are less, but they are still there so I am wondering if Spyware Blaster is needed or if it is useless and would slow down my browsing?
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Doesn't CCCleaner remove all cookies? Except the ones you tell it not to.
 
ketchup79 said:
BTW berryracer, while we are on the subject, what do you think about the "trackers" found by Superantispyware (SAS)?

Reason I ask is I have been in the same situation, using DNTM and having SAS say it found trackers. I switched to Ghostery and SAS reports after a week were about the same.

Finally I just decided to disable 3rd party cookies and be done with it. I'm just not sure that the few results SAS continues to come up with are a legitimate concern. And I just don't have the time to run it all the time anyway.
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TBH, I think SAS is useless really as it detects nothing really harmful, and I hate the fact that a security product bundles Google Chrome with it, there are a total of 4 clicks you have to do before its disabled

I just use it coz it's a habit but I think it's useless
 
berryracer said:
yes but I don't want that, I visit many sites and forum that store my login info, so I use SAS to clean out the harmful ones
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What you can do is set your browser to remove cookies on close. Once the cookies you want are stored, Firefox will only get rid of the new ones. If you join a new site you want to keep you'd have to change to change things again, but I don't do that very often. It goes without saying third party cookies should be blocked.
 
berryracer said:
why is that? I thought cookies were a good think to store your browsing preferences and what not....

what's the harm in your opinion?
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Third party cookies are the advertisers and trackers. Very infrequently they may control a third party commenting system. If I go to a site, or anywhere in the world as far as that goes, I want to deal with the people I know about. I don't want their buddies hanging around the corner and taking notes. It doesn't benefit me in the least.

I don't comment on sites I don't belong to. If I don't belong to the community, I don't care what they think, and the feeling I'm sure is mutual. My addition to some random blog adds little value to the world, and it isn't worth dealing with cookies and trackers to add my opinion.
 
If you're so paranoid about your privacy, just run your browser in private/incognito/inprivate mode.
 
WilliamM2 said:
All of the sites I visit retain my login info. Just uncheck "saved passwords" in the browser settings of CCleaner.
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That's not true, I just checked the cookies setting to have them cleared out and I unchecked saved passwords, all my logins were gone! 😡
 
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