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by wardenclyffe 5167 days ago
You have the ability right now, go to your settings and switch your cookie handling to "prompt me for all cookies", and tada! you are now in control.

It's a pain I admit, but such is the burden of maintaining your privacy online. Whenever I set up a computer for friends or family I always do this (as well as blocking flash and javascript as standard) and explain what it entails, because without that they cannot know what they are giving away.