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Story: Google Web Accelerator sparks privacy fears

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Posted by: BigB (Monday 9 May 2005, 10:28 AM)

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"One solution is to use a made up user name in your operating system registration file. Just do a search for OS files using the user name you registered it with as the search criteria and change the name to one you made up. Or use another name when you reinstall or update your OS. This renders any information in say, cookies, useless to people like spammers. " Frank Swain

lol mate - this won't make a difference! It is actually dangerous to edit your system files... If you're gonna do something like this, you may wanna start in the registry!!

It has nothing to do with spammers or cookies!! Cookies are stored and retrieved individually from websites. Spammers get your address randomly or if you sign up for or register stuff, or web/usenet spiders

Yes many programs track usage. Opt out, register with a secondary email, and use programs like AntiSpyXP...

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