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What info does the Google Toolbar pass to google.com?

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katherine

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Apr 26, 2001, 1:36:07 AM4/26/01
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Dumb me, I surf with cookies disabled, no cookies from Google. Does
Google know when you copy the page you need and open it in another
window? Where is the toolbar or can I see it? Thanks.

Jack Benny wrote:
>
> John Citizen,
>
> From what I remember, it's not so much the cookies, it's that for
> every web page you visit, your browser (instructed by the toolbar)
> sends the address of every page back to Google.
>
> --
> JB
> Learn the Hazards
> http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/info17.htm
> --
> "John Citizen" <Jo...@invalid.domain> wrote in message
> news:BVMN8lWw...@colossus.SMG...
> >
> > I know that its possible to turn off communication to google but
> > if I wanted info on various pages what would I be giving up? Is
> > the same cookie set by google.com sent at every request? If someone
> > has already posted the protocol used in a previous post could someone
> > give me the message id/date of that post.
> >
> > Thanks.

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