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Amazon website tracking

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  • 10-01-2014 7:30pm
    #1
    pleasant Co.
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 7,404 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hi there, I'm really not too sure if this is the most appropriate forum for this question but here goes.

    So I use firefox26 as my web browser, on a mac (maybe that's relevant), and today I was browsing amazon uk when I noticed something a little bit odd..in my "recently viewed" it had a product that I had never viewed on amazon (an sd card) but I had viewed it on "mymemory.co.uk"

    Out of curiosity I went and viewed a random item on amazon to push it to the top of the recently viewed list and then opened mymemory in a new tab and viewed the sd card, boom - it's back to the top of my recently viewed list on amazon.

    As I have Firefox setup to "tell sites that I do not want to be tracked" I'm curious as to how this is happening? would anyone be able to educate me a little on the matter?


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Do you have some extension that checks prices across multiple sites? That could explain it.


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Tried this myself except on Chrome and it doesn't happen for me. I tried it with a bunch of SD cards too. Tracking is enabled on Chrome for me as well.


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    pleasant Co.
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 7,404 Mod ✭✭✭✭pleasant Co.


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    Do you have some extension that checks prices across multiple sites? That could explain it.

    That's probably it! I have invisible hand installed, I'll disable it and report back.


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    #5
    pleasant Co.
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 7,404 Mod ✭✭✭✭pleasant Co.


    Yup, that was exactly it AlmightyCushion! thanks for a pretty damn quick resolution to this curiosity :D


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