a process for preventing the unwanted transmission of information from a client computer to a host computer on the internet . the process analyzes the html contents of a user - accessed web page during the assembly of the web page for display on the client computer . after identifying the domain name of the web page and comparing that domain name to domain names of host computers from which elements of web page will be obtained , the process prevents unwanted transmission of data from the client computer to such host computers by processing requests for such elements through a cookie filter and / or a url filter . upon examination of all requests for the transmission of data and the prevention of any unwanted transmission of such data , the process displays the accessed web page on the client computer with or without the display of certain web page elements depending upon the user &# 39 ; s choice .