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Old 02-22-2008, 05:30 AM
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Default Re: How to prevent my information from being accessed by webpages

Thanks for the mention about IE6. I upgraded to ie7 last night and still no
good.I'm going to check out Firefox.
Thanx

"Sebastian G." <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in message
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>q wrote:
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>> Hello - I have visited a few sites that somehow have information about
>> what city I live in. I have cleared autocomplete and history and cookies
>> and offline files, and when I go back they still greet me with the city I
>> live in. How do they get that info?

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> GeoIP
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>> How do I stop it?

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> proxying
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>> Running IE 6

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> And you don't consider this as a much bigger problem?




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