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Nick Cotter  //  Wired, tired, and tedious to know.

Jan 27 / 3:19am

Google Toolbar Tracks Browsing Even After Users Choose "Disable"

GET /search?client=navclient-auto&swwk=358&iqrn=zuk&orig=0gs08&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&querytime=kV&querytimec=kV &features=Rank:SW:&q=info:http%3a%2f%2frds.yahoo.com%2f_ylt%3dA0oGkl32p1tLT2EB8ohXNyoA%2fSIG%3d18045klhr%2f
EXP%3d1264384374%2f**http%253a%2f%2fsearch.yahoo.com%2fsearch%253fp%3dlaptops%2526fr%3dsfp%2526xargs%3d12KP
jg1itSroGmmvmnEOOIMLrcmUsOkZ7Fo5h7DOV5CtdY6hNdE%25252DIfXpP0xZg6WO8T7xvSy7HBreVFdJGu277WVk0qfeG%25255FGOW%2
5255F772GnNVme5ujWkF3s%25252DJ%25255F0%25252Dmdn4RvDE8%25252E%2526pstart%3d7%2526b%3d11&googleip=O;72.14.20
4.104;226&ch=711984234986 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; GoogleToolbar 6.4.1208.1530; Windows XP 5.1; MSIE 8.0.6001.18702)
Accept-Language: en
Host: toolbarqueries.google.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
Cookie: PREF=ID=...

HTTP/1.1 200 OK ...

At this rate the only way to be sure is not to browse.

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