Yay! I have at last received an electronic-mail notification of a reply to my thread! Hopefully this encouraging scenario will become
status quo ante, rather than a pleasant surprise, in future.
That's the good news.
Zenobia, the following are enabled under "Tools > Options > Privacy >":
Thanks again for your greatly-appreciated help in this matter of cookie revelation (or, rather, lack thereof) on the part of Safer-Networking's otherwise marvelous Spybot - Search & Destroy. We're doing the testing Safer-Networking itself should have done and should be doing, but in the minds of corporate management we're merely Beta testers with wallets.