[GRLUG] grlug Digest, Vol 97, Issue 3
Micah Rairdon
micah.rairdon at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 13:54:55 EDT 2014
Check your password manager. It's not cleared with the form data when
removing history.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/password-manager-remember-delete-change-passwords
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:50 PM, <grlug-request at grlug.org> wrote:
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> 1. Re: amazon and firefox (Matt Behrens)
> 2. Re: amazon and firefox (Eric Beversluis)
> 3. Re: amazon and firefox (Dave Chiodo)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:26:48 -0400
> From: Matt Behrens <matt at zigg.com>
> To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area."
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> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] amazon and firefox
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> On Apr 11, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Eric Beversluis <
> ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
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> > 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.
>
> Firefox also maintains saved passwords (and asks you if you want to save
> them when you type them in.)
>
> Check Preferences ? Security ? Saved Passwords.
>
> If this is the case, Amazon probably doesn?t know your name and saved
> password, until you?ve submitted the form.
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> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:28:54 -0400
> From: Eric Beversluis <ebever at researchintegration.org>
> To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area."
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> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] amazon and firefox
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> 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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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:50:28 -0400
> From: Dave Chiodo <megadave at gmail.com>
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> 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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