[GRLUG] amazon and firefox

[Dave Chiodo]

That seems odd. I don't use FF, so I can't say for sure, but in chrome the
two are separate. It does have "clear browsing data", which has checkmarks
to choose which datasets to clear (cache, cookies, history, etc)





On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Eric Beversluis <
ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:

> 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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