“So, you think your computer system blocks cookies. It doesn’t. You use a cookie remover to get rid of them. Great. But what about supercookies?”

“…As a privacy-conscious person, I am astounded at the degree of invasion that this experience indicates exists at Google. It knows what I have been searching for. It remembers. I wonder how long it retains this information?”

“You can get rid of them [supercookies]. An add-on for Firefox [Web browser] is BetterPrivacy.”

Learn more:

Removing Supercookies (this short intro links to longer article below)

How Did Google Identify Me This Closely? This Is an Marketer’s Dream, but a Privacy-Conscious Person’s Nightmare.

BetterPrivacy (Firefox add-on).

(And remember to use Scroogle Scraper for searching.)

Tags: privacy

This entry was posted on Friday, March 18th, 2011 at 6:00 am and is filed under Miscellaneous. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.