Been using CCleaner for nearly a decade, and I love it. It's never let me down! Now, all these years later, I don't want ALL my cookies nuked--I have over 100 Opt-Out cookies in there, in addition to all my log-ins. I did read, somewhere here today, that a function is now built-in to retain log-in cookies.
Couldn't the same be done for opt-outs?
Ever since I've collected these opt-outs, I haven't let CCleaner do it's thing--now there's 2,383 cookies in there! And it's not like I can read the things--sure some are actually labeled opt outs, but not all of them, and even I don't know which are which.
And then there's my Flash cookies. I run Firefox 11.1, and have used the add-on "Better Privacy" for at least a couple of years, so at least there isn't a similar issue with those--I just untick the box to clean them.
So I was just wondering if sometime in the future the Devs might figure out a way to let us keep these important files?
Personally, I wouldn't dream of letting a web site permanently place a cookie on my computer with the supposed intent of preventing other cookies being deposited. What's that Opt Out cookie doing besides kindly keeping my computer free of unwanted cookies?
But maybe that's me being cynical, and they might have their use.
I can't speak for what the devs may introduce into future versions of CCleaner, but if I was you, I would bin the lot of them.
I'm not being disrespectful to your suggestion gaia, and this is just my personal opinion, but getting your computer clogged with cookies to protect the opt out ones just seems a bit counter productive.
Some of the other guys may have a different opinion about "Opt Out Cookies", and if so I'm sure they'll contribute to your topic.
Doing a bit of googling shows that this seems to be something ran by the "Network Advertising Initiative" and there are too many grey areas with their regulation and enforcement in my opinion.
This scheme could easily be abused by unscrupulous advertisers taking advantage of this "protected cookie" thing.
You can add the opt-outs over to the cookies to keep. I do a simular thing with firefox in that I don't delete the opt-outs as one of my add-ons makes them
I have a lot of opt-out cookies. I retained them by clearing all cookies, opening firefox (which recreated them) and then moving them to the list to keep