Uh, yes there is. Being the only IP address they are going to see from my company is the router, the IP is worthless unless they want to include all 10,000 people who use it. At home I have three computers sharing my routers IP.
If you look at the Google cookie it uses a 64-bit UID to track you. Doubleclick and a ton of other sites do the same thing. They don't need to track me, no matter how benign their intentions are so I disallow their cookies.
pwned!
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Don't let The Man keep you down. See conspiracies where none exist so that when a real conspiracy comes along, you will be sure not to miss it. Believe everything you read on the internet.
1. Google doesn't take my email and sell it
--- GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND!
i guess if you dislike google that much, you can have Jeeves serve your inquires.
--- GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND!
i guess if you dislike google that much, you can have Jeeves serve your inquires.
Google uses a UID to track you because it doesn't want to cross you with someone else behind whatever router or switch you may rest behind. If google wanted to track your activities, it certainly does not need a cookie to do so. Your computer isn't generating that 64-bit uid, google is. Your computer didn't arbitrarily decide to put stuff into the cookie, google did. It's almost certainly just a hash of information that your browser has already sent to google. In other words, the second you hit google, your browser has just sent all the information you think you're preventing google from seeing, regardless of whether or not you actually have google's cookie. The only thing that could remotely be called "tracking" is google throwing whatever link you clicked on or whatever term you searched for into that cookie...and if you think that google can't find a way to track its clickthrus without the use of cookies...I've got a great deal on the brooklyn bridge for you.
Fact of the matter is, the whole idea that Big Brother is watching your cookie cache and determining where you've been is bogus. The media has hyped up cookies as the devil's internet...where you are naked and vulnerable before a horde of haxors lining up to view your cookie cache. The truth of the matter is, if google wanted to track where you've gone and what you're doing, they could do so completely on the server side and you would never know. On top of that, there are better ways of data mining than unreliable, easily deleted, relatively hard to access cookies.
Each time you type the word "porn" into google, they give $1 to the Palestenians. It's a fact, I read it on the internet.
so they have a cookie. What if you delete the cookie? Anyway, I don't care, Google pwns you and your mother!
Of course it is. Have you ever tried to forget something? It's futile, I tell ya!
Oh, and for the record, I am against Electric Amish too.
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