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Non-google sites send cookie requests through google search
- snewe 18y agoBigger image: http://inertcom.com/goog_cookie.png http://inertcom.com/goog_cookie.png
- slater 18y agoNo, they're not doing that, it's Firefox's pre-fetching that does that. It's fetching parts of the linked sites, and in doing so, the site is trying to set a cookie. Google has nothing to do with this.
- mqt 18y agoNo, Google is directing your browser to prefetch the linked site by inserting <link rel="prefetch" href="http://example.com"> for links they think you'll visit. http://tr.ashcan.org/2008/12/keeping-tabs-on-googles-confidence-with-greasemonkey.html http://tr.ashcan.org/2008/12/keeping-tabs-on-googles-confide... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_prefetching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_prefetching
- mqt 18y agoThis isn't news. Google will add a link tag and prefetch directive to links that it's confident you'll click on. There's a greasemonkey script that will identify prefetched resources: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38841 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38841