How to refuse all cookies (Netscape 4)

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Tip provided by mike fengler
>> Does anyone know how I can make netscape 3 refuse all cookies without
>> prompting me: there no good to me, and slightly sinister, but some sights
>> try to set so many, its a nuisance to refuse them all by hand.
>
>Sure - leave them enabled in your preferences, and make a soft link from
>/dev/null to ~/.netscape/cookies:
>"rm ~/.netscape/cookies; ln -s /dev/null ~/.netscape/cookies"

That didn't wor for me. Netscape 4.0x threw away the link and happily
accepted cookies again. What _did_ work was a "chmod 000 ~/.netscape/cookies"

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