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If you sign out of G Mail does google still track you?
self | Dec 25 | self

Posted on 12/25/2014 5:51:08 AM PST by dennisw

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To: dennisw

I have removed anything and everything remotely connected to Chrome on my machines.


21 posted on 12/25/2014 6:47:26 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: TomGuy

I don’t use firefox, but thanks.


22 posted on 12/25/2014 6:47:48 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: dennisw

Bookmarking


23 posted on 12/25/2014 6:51:02 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: a fool in paradise
I don’t use firefox, but thanks.

Most of those links have extensions for various browsers, not just Firefox.
24 posted on 12/25/2014 6:51:15 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: sauropod

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25 posted on 12/25/2014 6:53:49 AM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: a fool in paradise

Yes. They claim not to, but they still track you.


26 posted on 12/25/2014 7:02:50 AM PST by Ingtar (Is this the Ebola and rumors of Ebola mentioned in the Bible?)
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To: TomGuy

I know you are joking, but a lot of different updates and maintenance chores are preconfigured to take place in the middle of the night.

For example, Windows 7 is scheduled to do a defrag of the hard drive every Wednesday night at 1:00 AM.

If you go to Control Panel, System and Security, Administrative Tools, and then Task Scheduler, you can expand the Windows node and then look at all the different default tasks and when they run, and even turn them off or change their times to better suit your needs (like for night owls, for example).


27 posted on 12/25/2014 7:05:27 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: PieterCasparzen

I use this for searching;
https://www.ixquick.com
No cookies, no recording your IP.


28 posted on 12/25/2014 7:07:18 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: dennisw

You can’t hide from Google.


29 posted on 12/25/2014 7:09:02 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: dennisw

Given the fact that Google-stats is the most popular way site use to track their hit count and page stick just assume if you are on the internet Google is tracking you.


30 posted on 12/25/2014 7:11:37 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: a fool in paradise

Logging out doesn’t get rid of cookies. It’s the new world, the interconnected nature of the web goes both ways. There’s no way around it.


31 posted on 12/25/2014 7:13:02 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: TomGuy

That’s your windurs update running.


32 posted on 12/25/2014 7:14:10 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: dennisw

It depends on what you mean by “track”. Right now google has cookies in your computer that record your history so that they can customize your ads.

Even if you delete the cookies your cable company records every single web site you ever visited.

Here’s what you can do to stay under the radar: 1)Delete and disable cookies 2)Cancel your cable and internet. 3)Use other people’s WiFi: Library, neighbors, etc.

Staying signed out of Gmail and Google wouldn’t hinder Google’s ability to track you in the least.


33 posted on 12/25/2014 7:23:13 AM PST by Policy Wonk
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Log out of your DATING SITES!

Otherwise your profile will show “on-line” and that wonderful lady you just had a third date with will think you are still tolling!!!!

“Been there”


34 posted on 12/25/2014 7:26:07 AM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: dennisw

Your IP address is being tracked with or without gmail. The the number of people tracking you is in direct proportion to the trail you leave.

Last week in the news was about payday loan company loan applications being sold to criminals.


35 posted on 12/25/2014 7:27:00 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: dennisw

BFL


36 posted on 12/25/2014 7:27:11 AM PST by goodnesswins (2015)
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You can be tracked by Flash cookies and standard cookies. It's even possible for websites to know you visited other sites from your history (the same thing that allows your browser to show visited links in a different color can be read by web sites to determine the same from the website’s side).

Even Free Republic uses Google Analytics page monitoring to help keep FR high in the search results. Once Google knows every page refresh from you and you were simultaneously logged into GMail, they can tie you to both from that point, onward. And remember, Google has publicly stated ‘they keep EVERYTHING’ on us, ‘FOREVER.’

Google is an evil company made up of 0bama supporters feeding your information and activities to the Administration. Starve them with script blockers, cookie erasures, and more. Use StartPage.com to get Google search results, safely.

However, starving the Google beast takes time. Be patient.

37 posted on 12/25/2014 7:35:12 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: dennisw

Tracking is usually done by “cookies”. you can easily delete stored cookies, some sites require cookies, a good program that allows you to save cookies that you want is CCleaner. Excellent program to keep your computer clean.


38 posted on 12/25/2014 7:38:12 AM PST by FreedomGuru (Torture=:Living in a Obamanation.)
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To: dennisw

Google is tracking you right now.

Right here on Free Republic.

Unless you are blocking google-analytics.com


39 posted on 12/25/2014 7:40:13 AM PST by servo1969
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To: dennisw

M4L and everyone else


40 posted on 12/25/2014 7:59:59 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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