In a previous question What
can a website I visit tell about me? I discussed the information
that's made available to all websites no mater what they do. The
original question included:
Can [a] site collect the following information:
- My computer name (the name I assigned to my computer)?
- Profile information???
- My browsing history (any/all sites I've visited and when) or can
they just tell the number of items in my history?
- Email addresses associated with my computer?
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The strict answer remains "no" to the question as posed, but in
reality things aren't quite that simple.
For example, web sites can remember what you tell them, and we often
tell them more than we think.
And the remembering? That's typically using something called a "browser
cookie".
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