Connecting the Dots... http://www.friskie.com/blog Thoughts on technology, trends, social media,design, distance learning and collaboration,language, cool tools, and moving to a new town. Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:29:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 en A Not So Nice Google “Feature” http://www.friskie.com/blog/archives/2005/04/04/a-not-so-nice-google-feature/ http://www.friskie.com/blog/archives/2005/04/04/a-not-so-nice-google-feature/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:27:07 +0000 friskie Tips & Tricks http://www.friskie.com/blog/archives/2005/04/04/a-not-so-nice-google-feature/ If you use a Mozilla or Firefox browser, you need to know that Google uses a “special prefetching feature” that will send a cookie from the site behind the top search result whether or not you actually click on that site’s link. This obviously can lead to all kinds of problems … your computer will record that you visited sites that you never actually visited, you’ll download cookies that you don’t need, stats for the sites in question will be artificially inflated, etc., etc. Bad news all around.

Here’s how to disable the prefetch “feature,” which I highly recommend you do.

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