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Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question
To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>,
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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.