var fDesc=new Array(); fDesc[0] = "Cookienator is a tool that will help you remain anonymous from search engines such as Google and other notorious web-usage trackers such as Doubleclick or Omniture.

Many websites install cookies in your browser, and these little bits of tracking data will be used to identify you for as long as you keep using your computer. In the past few years I have been alternating between religiously clearing my cookies from time to time, or neglecting to do so with hope that these corporations will live up to their vague promises of doing no evil.

Then I decided that it'd be more productive to automate the whole thing, so I spent a good chunk of a weekend creating the first version of Cookienator, a simple program that will leave most of your cookies alone but will remove the ones that put your privacy at risk.

Cookienator is lightweight; it's a single executable that you install on your computer. When run, it will tell you how many cookies it would like to remove. You can also view the cookies in question.
By clicking a single checkbox you can elect to have Cookienator briefly check your cookie status every time you log on to your computer. If it finds that evil cookies have been around for too long, it will automatically remove them.

The software will not remove all your cookies. Many of them are used for legitimate reasons such as storing your preferences or logging you in automatically. Cookienator is configured to clean up crumbs left on your computer by a select few websites: Google, AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Webtrends, Omniture, Doubleclick, Intellitxt, Advertising.com and others. This is a very arbitrary list, and it can probably be extended to include many more. You're free to do so: Cookienator has a configuration screen where you can edit the filters used to identify potentially troublesome sites."; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }