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In 2021, I would run CCleaner every two weeks or so in order to spiff up performance. It would generally report hundreds of "Trackers," and CCleaner would remove them.

Last year, the number rapidly climbed, topping 1,000 for the first time, but approaching 10,000 (every two weeks) just a few months later. I wish I could say that was the end of it, but it wasn't. Before long, I was running CCleaner every few days, typically finding between 7,000 and 9,000 trackers.

I ran it yesterday, and again today, finding and removing 5,000 new ones in that last scan, just 24 hours after having removed even more.

I left my computer logged into Facebook while shoveling the driveway today, came back in and found 538 new tracking cookies. I shut down the browser, opened it again, went to Facebook and scrolled through a few messages. Now I had 641 tracking cookies. I did this one more time and now had 708 tracking cookies.

I shut down again and, this time, only logged into Amazon. Now there were 815 new tracking cookies.

What fun these websites are, eh?

Before I cleared them all out, I shut down the browser one more time, started up and went to AtomicBobs. ZERO NEW TRACKING COOKIES. That's a relief. Thank you, Bob!




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Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months


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