Patent attributes
Techniques are described for providing a web cookie firewall application capable of monitoring and controlling the use of web cookies at computing devices. The web cookie firewall application uses web cookie security policies to selectively allow or prohibit the storage or use of individual web cookies or types of web cookies. For example, web cookie security permissions can be defined by such policies to permit or deny the storage or use of web cookies associated with certain website domains, to permit or deny the storage or use of defined types of cookies, or to control access to web cookies based on other attributes. The web cookie firewall application can be implemented as a standalone application, as a web browser plugin or extension, or as any other type of software application that it is capable of monitoring and controlling the use web cookies on a computing device.
