Comments on: More on Google

By: maja

maja — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:46:45 +0000

Aaah, laptop! I did not think about laptops and external media. We are not that advanced in the Netherlands:-)! But you are right. In that case you are fu. . eh. .googled! May I advise Knoppix (knopper.net/knoppix/). And plain, simple Mozilla with different ‘profiles’: ‘N.N. Anonymous’. ?

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:56:39 +0000

Yea, that’s not very clear. This technical writing stuff is harder than it appears. The cookie (and I hope I don’t have to put quotes around that, it’s not a real cookie) will travel with you if it’s on the hard drive of your laptop, and you take it to a friend’s house or to a coffee house, and either jack in there, or use Wi-Fi (802.11b)

It will also travel with you if you have a copy of Portable Firefox (USB Drive-Friendly) and take it with you like I do to avoid using IE on someone elses computer.

Thanks for the feedback.

By: maja

maja — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:06:03 +0000

Also, the cookie sits on the hard disk of your computer. It is not magically transformed to the hard disk of the computers in a ‘coffeehouse or a friends house’. Unless of course you log in to Google.

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:08:10 +0000

Thanks for the linkage.

Actually, you do retain a Google cookie, because the Google cookie is useful. However, we file off the serial number and rewrite it as �000000000000000�. That way your number is exactly the same as mine and everyone else’s.

You could just toss the Google cookie and get a new one each time you restart your browser, but then you would have to reprogram your preferences each time too.

Oh, and it works on Firefox only.