Would this security app be useful?

[freeradical]

Cookie Stumbler Family

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Better than nothing, but it says nothing about Flash tracking or the companies that are using alternate methods to track users even after they opt out of cookies.

[Chakravartin]

I use this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox...erprivacy/

Firefox is set to delete flash cookies every time that it's quit or starts up.

And I have a couple of cookie-permissions add-ons that allow me to choose which sites get to set cookies on my computer and when those cookies expire.

[JEBB]

Would Safari's Private Browsing achieve the same thing?

[Chakravartin]

JEBB wrote:
Would Safari's Private Browsing achieve the same thing?

No.

It only protects against a small subset of Flash cookies.

Edit: And regular cookies.