borderline OT fireox question

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Sat Jul 16 15:36:25 UTC 2016


On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:21:31 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2016-07-13 21:55, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> >
> > I notice that whenever I start typing text into the serch-bar of 
> > Firefox (on my FreeBSD 9.3R daily-driver desktop system) it suggests 
> > completions for me, implying that Google has my identity pegged. I use 
> > TOR when surfing & followed the advice of a thread a few weeks ago 
> > about a FF setting to prevent those suggestions. I also have cron 
> > delete cookies & other cruft from the .mozilla directory nightly. How 
> > do they still have me ? TIA & have a good one.
> >
> Well the simple solution to that is turn of javascript.

Which renders 99% of "modern" web pages totally unusable
(as in "stop using that web page")...



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