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Search Engine Watch: Google Not Installing Third Party Cookies–It’s Firefox Prefetching

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“John Battelle spotted a post from Chris Marino at Tumbling Duke
that has the worrisome suggestion that Google is allowing third
parties to set cookies based on searches people do. But I dropped
an IM to Dave Naylor, who immediately spotted this being due to
Firefox prefetching.

“If you use Firefox, Google will automatically preload the pages
showing in the top search results…”

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