Jon

What's this about a unique id number with Firefox to enable Google to id
a comp/user?

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

Jon wrote:

> What's this about a unique id number with Firefox to enable Google to
> id a comp/user?

Cite?

Your IP address is available (with any browser), and has been forever.

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Jon

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote...

> Jon wrote:
>
> > What's this about a unique id number with Firefox to enable Google to
> > id a comp/user?
>
> Cite?

Rumour in another group. Thought I'd find out.


> Your IP address is available (with any browser), and has been forever.
>

IP isn't unique to every user/comp is it.

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

Jon wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote...
>> Jon wrote:
>>> What's this about a unique id number with Firefox to enable Google to
>>> id a comp/user?
>>
>> Cite?
>
> Rumour in another group. Thought I'd find out.

Ah. A rumour. Lovely things, those.

>> Your IP address is available (with any browser), and has been forever.
>
> IP isn't unique to every user/comp is it.

Yes. It is at the moment you used it.

Time/date stamp + IP address = You

and your ISP will have records of this, including what you connected to
at that instant.

As far as Firefox _itself_ generating some other kind of unique ID per
user seems a bit 'over the top' to me.

You did mention "Google" so maybe there is something to what you say in
the add-on Google Toolbar (for various browsers and OSs). For the life
of me, I don't understand why users want Google to know everything they
do on their (formerly) personal computers. Google Toolbar, Google
Desktop, Google online medical records, Google this'n'that...

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-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

Andy Walker

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

> Time/date stamp + IP address = You

Not if you are sharing a proxy. You might be more correct to say IP
Address + source port + Unix Time Stamp = you.

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

Andy Walker wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>
>> Time/date stamp + IP address = You
>
> Not if you are sharing a proxy. You might be more correct to say IP
> Address + source port + Unix Time Stamp = you.

Ok, let's say that. :-)

It still means that anyone can be identified.

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-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

Jon

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote...

> Jon wrote:
>
> > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote...
> >> Jon wrote:
> >>> What's this about a unique id number with Firefox to enable Google to
> >>> id a comp/user?
> >>
> >> Cite?
> >
> > Rumour in another group. Thought I'd find out.
>
> Ah. A rumour. Lovely things, those.

The lastest reply on the subject is this

"When Firefox3 crashes, when it asks you to send information about the
crash, select to read the information it sends before sending (or not)."


> >> Your IP address is available (with any browser), and has been forever.
> >
> > IP isn't unique to every user/comp is it.
>
> Yes. It is at the moment you used it.
>
> Time/date stamp + IP address = You
>
> and your ISP will have records of this, including what you connected to
> at that instant.
>
> As far as Firefox _itself_ generating some other kind of unique ID per
> user seems a bit 'over the top' to me.
>
> You did mention "Google" so maybe there is something to what you say in
> the add-on Google Toolbar (for various browsers and OSs). For the life
> of me, I don't understand why users want Google to know everything they
> do on their (formerly) personal computers. Google Toolbar, Google
> Desktop, Google online medical records, Google this'n'that...
>
>

I've been using -
http://www.scroogle.org
as my search engine for a couple of years. No info is passed onto
Google from it.