Newegg.com is stalking me

[John Connor]

If you use Pale Moon. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/18202/pale-moon-anti-fingerprinting

 

[Loser Gamer]

How can Newegg remember my recently viewed items despite deleting all their cookies? I'm using Firefox with adblock plus, no script, and ghostery. Third party cookies are disabled as well as tracking. Cache is emptied on browser close. This is really bothering me, something here isn't behaving.

Edit: I clicked on a Newegg item page listing that's in my recently viewed list in my Firefox history to forget it. I just wanted to forget that one page but it ended up forgetting all my Newegg history. But that killed off the whole recently viewed item list that's shown towards the bottom of Newegg's main page. So Newegg's home page is apparently directly accessing stored browser history. I feel this is... not OK. 😡

Edit 2: I tried this in Chrome. The recently viewed items on newegg.com go away by deleting cookies/cache but without having to also delete browsing history. Can someone else confirm what I'm finding here?

Regardless of cookie issues on your pc your IP is traceable all across the internet. I am sure websites log internet traffic with IP's. Once they know your static IP that's a good sign its you. Do they act on the IP at all? This is not to be cared about since you can't control that.

If you want to be more invisible you need to use a VPN. Just getting rid of cookies isn't going to do as much as you think.

 

[superstition]

And, of course, the VPN companies work with governments to make sure you're being profiled.

 

[John Connor]

And, of course, the VPN companies work with governments to make sure you're being profiled.

And I'm sure this absurd foolishness can be backed up by what?

 

[John Connor]

Looky what I found in my HTML5 localstorge!

 

[Red Squirrel]

There's a lot of weird sketchy web stuff that browsers seem to allow to happen, where lot of your info such as your browsing history can be leaked. Lot of sites like Facebook and Google take advantage of these bad security designs to track your every move. It's why you can go on one site and search for something only to see ads for that type of thing on a completely different site. Extensions like privacy badger help and ad blockers will stop those ads from showing up but it's sometimes interesting to turn the ad blocker off just to see how much the ad servers know about you - and it's scary as hell. Makes you wonder if they can also access your files or do other nasty things with those scripting methods. Browsers now days are very insecure by design it seems.

 

[John Connor]

Makes you wonder if they can also access your files or do other nasty things with those scripting methods

With JS they can and that's why I have been using NoScript for about 9 or 10 years now.

I think HTML5 has some hacking crap ability too.