Over the last couple of weeks I've noticed that my work browser and my home browser are talking to each other. If I instal an add-on at work, my home browser has it, bookmarks and stored passwords: ditto.
I've changed my default browser to chrome and I have multiple google accounts, one of which is nearly always open. Which, I suppose, explains the how. Or does it?
There's a really big firewall between my work's WAN and my home computer. You can't poke anything through it, in either direction, on any other ports that 80 and 25. I've tried. So something HTTP/HTTPS is carrying my signature. I think that it involves cookies but, I can't see the how.
I've looked at the cookies that google deposits [there are quite a few], I don't see any that connect. So what's happening? I'll admit that I'm scobbied.
I don't like it, this is out-of-the-box behaviour that I can't seem to turn off. There's a similar functionality with a FF sync add-on, but you have to opt in and there are choices.
This doesn't impact on me much—I'm careful with what I do on a computer, I know that everything gets logged and that I may have to explain me sometime. What I had't realized was that something that I do at home may show up at my work.
Warning folks. There is much more of this to come.
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Now, this could be a bit of a wild stab, but could a smart-phone be the link? Or another related thought is wi-fi between the modem/routers & smart phone?New comment
'fraid not.
This isn't about how you connect. It's about google knowing that you are you. And I can't see how they are doing it.
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I used to read some of the small print when signing up to use services such as email, but I've given up now. Anything to do in cyber-space is tracked whether you like it or not (and one of the reasons I don't use online storage).
When I moved over to the OUs google mail, I remember reading that by using their service, I was agreeing to my emails being read.....
I mentioned smart phones as I'm going to have to see what I can do about stopping having my email automatically pushed through, while keeping the facility to email! I cannot walk about with an easily nickable item that contains confidential emails. OK, so I know that 'confidential' should be taken with a pinch of salt being online 'n' all, but I don't want to have to report to people that I've lost my phone and their details
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