Advanced Privacy Settings in Opera 6 & 5.01

This video tutorial shows you how to change the settings in Opera so that the browser will allow only cookies that are used by the Web site you are currently visiting. Under these settings, cookies seen by a Web site other than the Web site you are visiting are blocked. For instance, imagine visiting a fictional Web site called SomePortal.com. The SomePortal.com Web site places cookies on computers but sends the information to the fictional Web site CookiePortal.com. When you change the Opera cookie settings in the way shown in this video tutorial, the browser would block cookies from SomePortal.com because they are not sent back to the server you are visiting.

This video tutorial shows you how to change the settings in Opera so that the browser will allow only cookies from the Web site that you are visiting. Cookies coming into you computer from servers other than the one you are visiting are third party cookies and will be refused. For instance, imagine visiting a fictional Web site called SomePortal.com. The SomePortal.com Web site allows the fictional Web site CookiePortal.com to place cookies on the browsers of visitors to SomePortal.com. When you change the Opera cookie settings in the way shown in this video tutorial, the browser would block cookies from CookiePortal.com because they are third party cookies.

If you simply want to know when third party cookies are placed on your computer you can change your settings to prompt you when a third party Web site is attempting to place a cookie. By selecting the "Display Third Party Cookies" feature shown in the video tutorial your browser will alert you to the placement of a cookie and request your permission before it is placed. The browser will prompt you for each attempt requiring you to either accept or reject the third party cookie.

Click here to view other privacy options available within the Opera Privacy Menu.