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How do I get into a setup for Track Blocker. I am still getting tracking cookies daily.

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Each evening my system is scanned using AVG 2011. The following morning I check my virus vault and find at least one tracking cookie. I downloaded the Tracker block add on and I still get the tracking cookies.

How do I get into a setup for the Trackerblock.

Each evening my system is scanned using AVG 2011. The following morning I check my virus vault and find at least one tracking cookie. I downloaded the Tracker block add on and I still get the tracking cookies. How do I get into a setup for the Trackerblock.

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Because of the variety of methods that tracking companies use to write cookies, there's no 100% effective solution. None of available addons (including TrackerBlock, AdBlock and Ghostesry) block all tracking cookies all the time. But if you want to limit tracking, you're still at least 90% better with TrackerBlock installed.

Here are the results of our own testing: http://blog.privacychoice.org/2010/11/17/are-privacy-add-ons-effective-surprising-results-from-our-testing/

PS We would appreciate hearing which cookies you are seeing get through. It helps us prioritize our efforts to improve. Please let us know at [email protected].

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Thank you very much. However, I am assuming from your reply that no setup is required, is this correct?

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Yes, you are correct. The only setup required is that you must visit this page:

http://www.privacychoice.org/trackerblock/firefox

and make a selection of which kind of trackers to block. Your selection is immediately effective.

We wanted to keep the process as simple as possible.