[GRLUG] amazon and firefox

[Dave Chiodo]

"internet history" is your computers record of which sites you've visited

"cookies" are what sites use to recognize if you are a repeat visitor.

If you want to appear to be a new user to a site, its cookies you need to
clear.


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:

> It can also be held in Flash cache.  That's on of the reasons I use
> Flashblock.
>
> There are web sites that will show you your flash cache, and addons that
> let you clean it out.
>
>
> Eric Beversluis <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
>
> If I delete my entire history from Firefox, Amazon still knows my name
> and saved password when I go to amazon.com and click to sign into my
> account.
>
> How does it do that if I've deleted my entire history? Do they somehow
> know the MAC address of the box I'm using? But if I open Chrome, from
> which I've never signed into Amazon, it doesn't already have my name and
> saved password.
>
> ??
>
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