[GRLUG] amazon and firefox

[Eric Beversluis]

IN Firefox "Clear all history" includes cookies. So I've removed all
cookies as well when the information shows up.

On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 12:23 -0400, Dave Chiodo wrote:
> "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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