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Originally Posted by Lamplighter
As I understand it, activating this "Add On" allows each separate website source
to collect personal information on your own computer, and to use such information in any way they wish.
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Apparently most people don't even know half of it. If I go to the Cellar, only one IP connection exists. However many sites mean my conputer now has maybe 50 IP connection to many sites including Facebook, Akamai, amazonaws, softlayer, amailtechnologies, aol, data.net, wallst.com, and many others that only have IP addresses (no names). Sometimes these connections close when I leave that site. More often, these remain with other sites, I will close them repeatedly and they simply restore the connection.
These are maintained by one or multiple instances of the brower that do not appear on the desktop. Sometimes when all browser windows close, then those other instances remain open so that those web sites (I suspect) can also monitor what I do on other web sites.
Sometimes these instances cause the browswer to reload with a message that asks if I want to restore the last session. Because those other instances were still open when I shutdown. Sometimes those IP addresses have opened other processes (including CMD.com) that can only be found and closed by Task Manager.
I suspect these were made possible by debates in both Google and Microsoft as to whether their browsers should support advertising or permit users to block these other IPs. Apparently the 'block IP' function lost in both companies.
All these open IP connections make the computer act slow. Sometimes the demanded web site will not load until these other third party sites have completed their downloads - resulting in a message that the web site is not responding. So I close these 'junk' IP addresses. And suddenly by browser immediately connects to that requiested web site. Suddenly my computer acts faster. For a while until those junk IP addresses reconnect and start consuming more internet bandwidth.
I suspect most everyone then assumes their computer is slow. Do not know their computer could have 60 active connections to these other data collection sites.