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Question Are ebay links used to plant tracking on my computer

I inadvertantly clicked on an ebay link on our ebay computer. My gf has told me to NEVER click on a link to ebay as it will plant a tracking cookie that will migrate . True? If so how do i cleanse before i have to tell her? :-)
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Yes she is 100% right never you can use ccleaner to get rid of the cookies.
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Your girlfriend is going to be maaaaad at you!
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No "ehem" tonite!
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When you say "click on a link" what exactly does that mean ? Like from an email or something ?
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their links in email are not clean... after the proper link there is lots of data with some code. I would not mess with that
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yea I wouldn't put it past em' sounds like your gf is stealth too nice
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What do you mean by links? What type of links.
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yes I meant a link in an email. we activated betterprivacy to combat issue...
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yes I meant a link in an email. we activated betterprivacy to combat issue...
Thank you ! Question .. Who's ur email provider ?
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