Amazon and my browser history

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Mon May 05, 2014 3:53 pm

Watching a documentary on Amazon I thought I would visit their site, haven't been on there for several years and never with this PC.

To my amazement they are offering me stuff from my browser history.....frightening isn't it?

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Mon May 05, 2014 4:02 pm

Everyone knows everything you've done. Heck, even *I* know!

tude dog · Post by **tude dog** » Mon May 05, 2014 4:15 pm

Bruv;1453301 wrote: Watching a documentary on Amazon I thought I would visit their site, haven't been on there for several years and never with this PC.

To my amazement they are offering me stuff from my browser history.....frightening isn't it?

Scares me,:guitarist

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed May 14, 2014 2:48 am

Bruv;1453301 wrote: Watching a documentary on Amazon I thought I would visit their site, haven't been on there for several years and never with this PC.

To my amazement they are offering me stuff from my browser history.....frightening isn't it?

Within your browser set the options to "keep cookies for this session only" and "no tracking".

OK, they'll still see what you've done this session but not the back history that open cookies allows them.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed May 14, 2014 3:17 am

Bryn Mawr;1454063 wrote: Within your browser set the options to "keep cookies for this session only" and "no tracking".

OK, they'll still see what you've done this session but not the back history that open cookies allows them.
I thought I had it all set up, I shall have to have another look.

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Wed May 14, 2014 5:53 am

If you logged in then the information came from their own database, removing cookies has no effect on that part of their surveillance.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed May 14, 2014 9:16 am

Týr;1454065 wrote: If you logged in then the information came from their own database, removing cookies has no effect on that part of their surveillance.

No I wasn't logged in, I have used them. long long ago, but not since learning about the way they run their business.

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Wed May 14, 2014 9:38 am

If you look at the Firefox add-on DoNotTrackMe you'll see the capability of rejecting all the cookie history that Amazon and others use to share your browsing topics among themselves. It's a specific subset of your cookies and you have no earthly interest in accumulating it.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Wed May 14, 2014 10:28 am

So, thats why I keep getting all those penis enlargement e-mails.:-5:-5:-2:sneaky:

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Wed May 14, 2014 10:37 am

Good lord no, they're triggered by that DVD series from when you were working in California twenty years back. Most people would have put a pseudonym on the cast list.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Wed May 14, 2014 11:47 am

Týr;1454087 wrote: Good lord no, they're triggered by that DVD series from when you were working in California twenty years back. Most people would have put a pseudonym on the cast list.

Putting my pseudonym on the cast was when the problem started.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed May 14, 2014 1:28 pm

I have been using Firefox for years, a recent update made it look unfamiliar.

It is now Firefox 29.0 Ubuntu for canonical- 1.0 , still finding my way around it.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri May 16, 2014 5:32 am

Sometimes I think knowing the potential of technology makes it more worrying.

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