Doubleclick cookie question?

Question

How in the world do I get a hold of a doubleclick cookie? How in the world do I prevent getting it? The only pages I usually visit are yahoo and Youtube. Everytime I get online I get it!!! Any advice?? What does it do online, what does it do to my computer? My malware removal system notifies me of having it everytime I get online. What in the heck???

Answer 1

I permanently blocked doubleclick cookies from my system.



Go to 'tools'...'internet options'...'security'...click on the 'restricted sites'...then click on the 'sites' button to add the following sites to the restricted list...

https://doubleclick.co.uk

https://doubleclick.com

https://doubleclick.ne.jp

htpps://doubleclick.net

Answer 2

Relax!!



Cookies are just small .txt (text) files that by themselves cannot hurt your computer. Cookies are "set" by almost every web-site that you visit, on every visit. You can delete all your cookies today and by tomorrow you will have dozens again just be visiting web-sites.



Cookies do not slow down a computer, at least the first million or so that you might have on your computer!



They are not a virus or spyware, BUT some people consider "tracking" cookies to be an invasion of privacy.



Tracking cookies are usually "3rd party cookies" from advertising servers. They can track your movements around the web in order to deliver to you customized, targeted advertising.



And Doubleclick is a tracking cookie probably from one of the ads right here on Yahoo.



It all depends on ones personal level of paranoia whether you consider tracking cookies some kind of threat. Some anti-spyware programs do not even report tracking cookies as even a minor threat.





Children are the people that are always the most nervous about cookies. Because cookies are an easy way for Mommy and Daddy to find out exactly what their darling 'lil b@$^@#d$ have been looking at on the web.



Personally, If I happen to remember it, I will delete my cookies every 6 months or so :-)





Cookies are much ado about nothin'.

Answer 3

Great question Jamie. Thank you for participating. Dblclick is one of the most aggrivating problems around. They fall into the catagory with Browser Hijackers, trojans, etc. They of course do this in an attempt to get you to their sites where hopefully they can sell you something. Fortunately, we have ways of blocking it from the computer. In your control panel, go into the internet options folder. Click on the "security" tab at the top. You'll then see 4 instances of internet. Click on the "Restricted sites." Then click on the "sites" button. There, you can enter any sites that you want to block from your machine. Type in https://doubleclick.com and then https://dblclick.com and then https://doubleclick.net etc. There are several different ways that it can get to you so be sure to restrict all varibles that you can think of. Hope this helps. Larry