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Story: Google Web Accelerator sparks privacy fears
Posted by: BigB (Monday 9 May 2005, 10:28 AM)
"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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Story: Google Web Accelerator sparks privacy fears
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Ok youve got it wrong and didnt even download the... Anonymous -
[Headslaps] Wrong. The privacy fears are not about... Anonymous
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If you'e got nothing to hide you've got nothi... NJ -
I don't think people realise just how ma... Frank Swain -
"One solution is to use a made up u... BigB -
Reply to Big B.
Firstly let m... Frank Swain
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NJ/ Student,
It isn't as simple as bein... UKguy
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The NJ STUDENT wrote: "If you've go... Lou Ragun
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"If you've got nothing to hide, you've g... Steve Savage
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So, if I use a webmail system while this is runnin... Trygve Henriksen
