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Old 01-17-2006, 03:46 PM   #1
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Amazon.com (spooky)


Hey everybody... Yesterday, I was surfing the web looking for a particular product. I went to several pages related to the product, and read a lot of information about the product.

Today, I go to amazon.com and I am immediately offered the product that I was looking at the day before.... I don't like this... ... What can I do to prevent this? I like amazon.com and have an acct there, but I don't their nose in places that I haven't allowed...

I'm using SuSE 10 and Firefox.
 
Old 01-17-2006, 04:27 PM   #2
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Amazon sets a cookie with your username, but it is fairly obsfucated. Here's mine:

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Old 01-17-2006, 04:57 PM   #3
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