You can achieve that in Firefox without any extra extensions: Under Privacy: 1. Use Custom settings for history - Accept cookies from sites - Keep until: I close Firefox 2. Under Exceptions: - Add sites you want to allow permanent cookies sites using "Allow" button Done. Sites you allow can store cookies until they expire while other cookies are cleared every time you close the browser.

"Published: September 09, 1999" This is pretty much oldest news I have seen here.

That only applies to "ilmaisjakelu" (eg. distribution of "free" ads and rarely some local ad supported newspapers). Itella will deliver the ads they are distributing. It's true though that most ads come through the companies doing "ilmaisjakelu".

.. on Ars Technica. No ads. I guess their ads are broken if the browser is blocking JavaScript from 3rd party domains.

20 pages for 20 smallish pictures? Really? The site must be desperate for ad revenue.

Neverwinter Nights 2 (published by Atari), while it has client side copy protection which can be easily bypassed if need be, allows transfer of game to others. Personally I find Stardock's method more annoying than, for example, Neverwinter Nights 2 method as client side copy protection can always be bypassed unlike Stardock's style of not giving out updates from official sources without CD-key which cannot be transferred. Obviously if client side protection is overdone (like EA tends to) it is different matter, on that point I agree with you, and would prefer games without copy protections as in the end they do not work.