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ta...@aeqt.com

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Oct 11, 2009, 2:23:40 PM10/11/09
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With all my other track erasers, I never suspected that I had tons of
cookies on my machine until I found this page and downloaded this
plugin - which works with Firefox 3.5

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623

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ta...@aeqt.com

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Oct 11, 2009, 7:18:04 PM10/11/09
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:32:43 -0700, Beckett <bec...@work.invlaid>
wrote:

>Another FF add-on you might want to isntall is called Ghostery, it
>blocks web bugs (adsense, google analytics etc.).

I saw that one. I kind of thought it was beyond what I needed and
could be a bit of a pain at times, as one reviewer did say about it.

Thanks anyway.

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Ed

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Oct 13, 2009, 10:38:53 AM10/13/09
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But CCleaner seems to remove these?

Ed

occam

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Oct 13, 2009, 10:43:12 AM10/13/09
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Not the LSOs (Local Shared Objects or 'flash-cookies')

Ed

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Oct 13, 2009, 3:01:44 PM10/13/09
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yer, i think it does.

how to prove it one way or other?

occam

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Oct 14, 2009, 12:14:10 PM10/14/09
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You may be right Ed. (I never bother closing my Firefox as advised by
CCleaner, so that's why I see a difference.)

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