Requirement:
Outgoing Cookies -> Anonymity or Content filter activated!
Incoming Cookies -> Content filter activated!
Cookies are unmistakeable sequences of symbols that can accept various bits of information. Cookies are used in many ways and not all uses are potentially harmful.
Many internet "players" integrate their ad banners into multiple pages. When you enter such a site, they first check whether a cookie is already present on your computer. If not, a cookie with an unmistakeable series of signals will be placed on your computer, and at the same time the provider notes which page you were on when the cookie was saved. Every page that a provider uses to send an ad banner, can call up this cookie. If he realizes that a cookie is already present, he stores the current page under that cookie – remember, it's unmistakeable. After a while, he can create a very comprehensive profile on your preferences and surfing habits.
Many users do not know this, however!
Combating and defending against these cookies fall under incoming and outgoing cookies.
Basically, it's enough to deal with outgoing cookies, because simply storing the data on your computer doesn't help unless he can access the information. With ArchiCrypt Stealth, he either doesn't get any cookie in return or receives a randomly created cookie for every page you access while surfing. In either case, he is unable to draw any conclusions. The randomly created cookies actually negatively impact his data and his ability to confidently state preferences – they are therefore, in one sense, harmful.
Cookies that have been placed on your computer can also be used locally to determine which Internet sites you have used. This is certainly not always desireable. Therefore, ArchiCrypt Stealth provides two alternatives.
Blocking Incoming Cookies
The cookies are deleted from the incoming data stream and are, therefore, neither in your computer's memory, nor on the hard drive. There is nothing to access.
Changing Cookies to Session Cookies
The more harmless variation allows Internet sites to place a cookies in your main memory, but denies them a permanent place on your hard drive. This function is helpful, especially for online-shops, for example, since the cookies allow shopping carts to be managed.
In the lists, Permit cookies from these sites and Send cookies to these sites you can enter specific addresses that ArchiCrypt Stealth should ignore. This can be helpful when shopping systems require cookies or your online banking otherwise doesn't work.
With the + button, you add new addresses to the list; with the – button, you remove marked addresses from the list. The triangle button permits you revise a marked address.
