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update: Google Advertising Opt-Out add-on: updated for Firefox 3.5[unknown prefix: Google Advertising Opt-Out add-on]

Did you know about this? I didn’t.  Thanks to some random surfing and an EFF post, I just learned of it.

With this browser plugin you can permanently opt out of the DoubleClick cookie, which is an advertising cookie that Google uses. The plugin lets you keep your opt-out status for this browser even when you clear all cookies.

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Ok, I’ll admit it.  I really like system archaeology.

It’s like some strange combination of a system administrator, grey hat cracker, security expert, information archivist, hacker, propeller-hat role.  I don’t know how to explain it.

And I’ve been doing it on my own system.

For years.

  • Note that “digital folklore” (native web culture, etc) is not related.

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I’ve gone through a couple of primary browsers across a couple of different operating systems and operating system versions.

What’s even more unfortunate is that I’ve had multiple backups where there were different changes to different versions of things.  Fortunately I’ve been semi-active on keeping my links lists up-to-date, otherwise I might have bookmarks from 1998 in Neoplanet from back in my 16-bit Windows days.

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