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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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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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UPDATE: Firefox is a pig when in use, but not when idle.  It turns out that GMail is the pig!

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srsly.

Don’t get me wrong, It’s my main browser and it looks like it’ll stay that way.  I was using it when it was called Phoenix, and then Firebird.

But boy is it a memory-leaking pig of a program.

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