Re: DOS undocumented feature
On 26 Jul 2002, at 22:55, Juergen Luethje wrote:
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> I want to delete the INDEX.DAT files that are created by the Internet
> Explorer for privacy. Even if you delete all the files that can normally
> be deleted in the Cookies, Temporary Internet Files and History folders,
> the remaining INDEX.DAT files contain information about websites you have
> visited, cookies you have received, etc.
>
> See for instance
> http://www.purgeie.com/indexdat.htm
> http://www.swanksoft.com/historykill/cookies-dat.gif
> (There may be some more detailed information about this topic somewhere
> on the net.)
Web companies are getting sneakier about how to track you. Dynamic
scripting the server allows them to tag all href's with a unique id, so anything
you access from them after the first url is tracked, without setting any
cookies or looking in the index.dat file. And on the first url there are lots of
"src=" tags to advertisers, etc with those unique referrer tags. And there are
interesting non-standard header lines too, not just Cookie or ETags.
Kat
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