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don't track me is checked but 5 min after checking & bookmarking dvd from CompUSA ad showed up of several pages for the exact same thing. Doesn't do not track work?

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spinner67
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Mostly covered in question. I have FireFox set not to track me, but not 5 minutes after I checked the prices for DL DVDs @CompUSA, an ad for that exact item showed up on 2 web pages I was on. I can't believe it was a coincidence.

Mostly covered in question. I have FireFox set not to track me, but not 5 minutes after I checked the prices for DL DVDs @CompUSA, an ad for that exact item showed up on 2 web pages I was on. I can't believe it was a coincidence.

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the-edmeister
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https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/how-do-i-stop-websites-tracking-me#w_what-is-tracking

How does the Do-not-track feature work?
... "Honoring this setting is voluntary — individual websites are not required to respect it." ...

cor-el
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Selecting the "do-not-track" setting will only make Firefox send a specific HTTP header (DNT=1) to a web server.