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Bookmark that Site, Save the Cache and Cookies?

Monday, May 11th, 2009 by Thomas

Many users are quite concerned by the amount of tracking performed online so they dump their browser’s cache and cookies quite regularly. Effective privacy perserving strategy or not, all browsers thus have a commonly used setting to dump various browsing droppings like cookies, browser history, and cached files when the browser is closed. When looking [...]

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A Few Observations About Short URL Services

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 by Thomas

A back water infrastructure service of the Internet for many years URL shorteners allow you to take a long nasty long URL like http://blog.pint.com/2009/03/31/a-few-observations-about-short-url-services into something like http://tinyurl.com/cc2o48 Try it you just bounce here.
While we use these shortening services in some Internet mediums because we must it is questionable the value of the keyboard character [...]

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