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>>>> (Mercifully, it's virtually impossible to determine who an IP
>>>> address belongs to...)
>>> Why would that be?
>>
>> ...because every minute of every hour, hundreds of thousands of people
>> connect to a given ISP and get assigned new IP addresses purely at
>> random?
>
> Except they know the telephone number you're connecting from, unless you
> hide it and then some won't let you connect.
This still doesn't explain who the ISP is supposed to keep track of
several thousand computers all concurrently using their system.
> Check various communications laws, there's normally a bunch of provisos
> about providing information. How do you think the police get hold of
> telephone records?
OK, so they give the *police* that information. They're not going to
give it to anybody else, are they? :-P
>> Again, how do they get their hands on cookies for a different domain?
>
> Check your stats pages you might see a referrer address so they know
> where you came from, they then track you through their site. Now look
> closely at the results google presents say for "test"
>
> The first result is "Test.com Web Based Testing Software" hover over it
> and it'll take you to www.test.com right? Wrong! Pull up the properties
> of the link and you'll see it's going to
>
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.test.com%2F&ei=Bag2S
>
> They know where you came from, what you were doing on their site, and
> where you left for.
OK, so they know I came from Google. They still don't know what I
searched for. :-P
>> (Also, what do you mean "sign up to Google"?)
>
> For personalised info on iGoogle, you got Gmail?
...wuh?
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