Originally Posted By: artie505
I know you're wed to Firefox, but have you ever looked into Tor Browser Bundle?

I hadn't but just had a boo; not likely my cup o' tea.

Originally Posted By: artie505
Have you got a static ISP with your dial-up?

It's a dynamic IP connection.

After I manually blocked all the demdex.net-associated cookies and accessed the affected sites, all seems well. But it's another reason to carry on my practice of poring over my cookies at least once daily.