On 12/17/10 7:43 AM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 12/16/10 11:02 PM, Paul wrote: >> David E. Ross wrote: >>> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) >>> Gecko/20101123 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 >>> >>> I just did a search in Google for "Supercuts". At the top of the list >>> was a map of the area where I live, showing the location of the nearest >>> Supercuts store to my house. >>> >>> I have the preference variable geo.enabled set to "false". I have no >>> cookies set for Supercuts. The only cookie I have for Google resulted >>> from my setting my search preferences; in those preferences, I left my >>> location blank. >>> >>> Why does it appear that I'm still getting location-aware browsing? >> >> Your address is broadcast to who ever you connect to (and more). >> Currently its: 76.173.11.77 >> IP Information - 76.173.11.77 >> Host name cpe-76-173-11-77.socal.res.rr.com >> Country United States United States >> Country Code US >> Region California >> City Agoura Hills >> Postal Code 91301 >> Latitude 34.1267 >> Longitude -118.7648 >> Area Code 818 >> DMA Code 803 >> >> Also, make sure you clean your flash cookies because >> every flash site you have visited is stored on your computer. >> > > This last thing is also a problem. I have FlashBlock installed and > enabled. Still, I get Flash cookies stored on my hard drive. >
Oops! Because some sites use JavaScript to be very annoying (e.g., poping up large tool-tips that I don't want to see), I sometimes disable JavaScript. However, FlashBlock requires JavaScript to be enabled. This explains the Flash cookies that I did not expect. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
