Too many cookies from the New York Times

I use Netscape 7.2 on WinXP SP2.

I browse through the New York Times site a lot, and lately, something strange has been happening.

After I open up a few articles on the front page in new tabs, I start getting asked to Login each time I open up another tab for a new article. The password manager has my user name and password, and inserts it into the proper boxes in the login form, so I just have to click the login button, and the desired article comes up (some times I have two repeat this click two or three times, but it eventually works). Not terrible, but annoying. (IE6 doesn't require the logins, but I don't like IE6.

I contacted the NYTimes webmaster about this, and they advised me to remove the NYTimes cookies, login once, and go on from there. And they're right. If I remove all the NYT cookies, and login, I won't be asked to login (usually) for the remainder of the session, until the next day.

There are about thirty!! cookies of the NYTimes that must be removed each time, which is a drag.

Does anybody know of the reason for this, and a more permanent solution? Thanks

 

You almost answered your own question, I think. What are the Cookies' settings. I have my 7.2 cookies set to one week lifetime, and the four cookies from New York Times are there. There is a "client" cookie, plus three more with a descrip[tion which I don't understand. I went all over todays' issue. Closed it, signed up again (the information was saved, so I had just to click once).
Al;though it is true that I can get into NY Times from IE, without signing in, I can't get any personal information, like local weather, and stuff like that without sign in. But, the same is true with NS7.2. I just typed the address , and was able to access the same pages as IE. In the process, I was bestowed a cookie for Orbitz popunders which would be blocked. So, it appears, and this is no surprise, that direct access creates cookies for ads. Most likely a big chunk of the cookies is due to Ads.
So, I have a solution, if you are satisfied with what you get. Cut down the lifetime of your cookies. That will be detrimental, because you will have to sign in sites like this, as soon as the cookies regenerated. But, 30 cookies is not a sign of NY Times behavior. Just long cookie's lifetime.

 

Westside, thanks for the advice.

I waited a few days before replying to see how much of a difference using your suggestion would make, and I'm afraid that it didn't help too much. I changed the Edit>Preferences>Privavy & Securities>Cookies>Cookie Lifetime Policy to 1 day (from 90 days), but I'm still getting the same behaviour, although it seems to start a little later in the session. I also find about 25 "NYTimes" cookies to remove.

What I don't understand is why having a large number of such cookies should prompt the site to require a login. Any suggestions?

 

If all the cookies are related to New York Times, I have no idea. I tried to do all sort of things, and, I can increase the number of cookies from advertising. But, did you delete all the 25 cookies. Close your browser, and tried again. I don't get the feeling that you removed the old cookies by reading your post.
I was under the mistaken understanding that once the settings were changed, that you would not see the old cookies. If the old cookies are set to expire in 2032, it does not matter what the present setting are.
I deleted all the cookies, and then set them for 7 days. All cookies which would normally have long expiration dates are set to expire on March 15, 2005. Or, you can have them set for the the session only, but the old stuff has to go.