Help: is it a cookie? how to delete privous typed information?

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Also, I guess it isn't just me having problem with this website. I bet if any
of you try to browse the website and entry some contact information (e.g.
place an order, of couse not a "really order", just stop at the "providing
your credit card number" page) , next time you checkout, previously typed
contact information will be automatically filled out. I bet you can't clean
that up.

Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions.
I did find another way to stop my contact information showing up. I just try
to do a "false order", in the billing/shipping page when my contact
information automatically appears, I changed it with some fake one, submit
it, then next time the fake address will automatically show up. That's the
ony way I can think of deleting my contact information.

Green

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Robert said:
PA Bear said:
So you're not automatically "signed in" but your data still appears?
Assuming no credit card data appears, I've not be too concerned. They
may have garnered the information from your earlier correspondence with
them. [FWIW I have no idea how it works, but it does. The other day I
had
occasion to use the online Contact Us form to inquire about a problem
with my Harper's Magazine subscription. Now, I'd never contacted this
site or Harper's before online or via email: The prompt said something
like, "Just enter any email address you use, whether you've used it
here before or not." I entered my Hotmail addy, hit the Send button and
instantaneously a screen appeared with my full name and address. <doh> ]
Click to expand...

That would be your AutoComplete for forms values showing.
E.g. you previously visited another site which used the same
names for the fields that that one is using and entered your
information in them.
Click to expand...

I don't think so, Robert. OP did not say the data appeared when he started
typing in the information, but that it appeared already filled-in, as it
were, when he opened the page.
 
PA Bear said:
Robert said:
[FWIW I have no idea how it works, but it does. The other day I
had
occasion to use the online Contact Us form to inquire about a problem
with my Harper's Magazine subscription. Now, I'd never contacted this
site or Harper's before online or via email: The prompt said something
like, "Just enter any email address you use, whether you've used it
here before or not." I entered my Hotmail addy, hit the Send button and
instantaneously a screen appeared with my full name and address. <doh> ]
Click to expand...

That would be your AutoComplete for forms values showing.
E.g. you previously visited another site which used the same
names for the fields that that one is using and entered your
information in them.
Click to expand...

I don't think so, Robert. OP did not say the data appeared when he started
typing in the information, but that it appeared already filled-in, as it
were, when he opened the page.
Click to expand...


I was trying to address *your* Harper's symptom only.
I realize that OP claimed that AutoComplete was not an issue for him.

Do you not use AutoComplete for form data either?
If you do go back to that form and use view source to see what
name= parameters are used there and then use CursorDown to see
what values are stored under them.

Of course if this was a site you had visited before Cookies could have
also played a role instead. FWIW though, I don't have a Cookie from
them after my visit to the Contact Harper's... page.


Robert
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Robert said:
[FWIW I have no idea how it works, but it does. The other day I
had
occasion to use the online Contact Us form to inquire about a problem
with my Harper's Magazine subscription. Now, I'd never contacted this
site or Harper's before online or via email: The prompt said something
like, "Just enter any email address you use, whether you've used it
here before or not." I entered my Hotmail addy, hit the Send button and
instantaneously a screen appeared with my full name and address.
<doh> ]

That would be your AutoComplete for forms values showing.
E.g. you previously visited another site which used the same
names for the fields that that one is using and entered your
information in them.
Click to expand...

I don't think so, Robert. OP did not say the data appeared when he
started
typing in the information, but that it appeared already filled-in, as it
were, when he opened the page.
Click to expand...

I was trying to address *your* Harper's symptom only.
I realize that OP claimed that AutoComplete was not an issue for him.

Do you not use AutoComplete for form data either?
If you do go back to that form and use view source to see what
name= parameters are used there and then use CursorDown to see
what values are stored under them.

Of course if this was a site you had visited before Cookies could have
also played a role instead. FWIW though, I don't have a Cookie from
them after my visit to the Contact Harper's... page.
Click to expand...

<blushes> Oops!

No, it's not AutoComplete-related, Robert, and there was no form. The
prompt was simply to enter *any* email address you use and hit Enter. In
the resulting "Contact Us" window was then displayed:

Robear Dyer
[my real street address]
[town, state, zip]
[email address entered on previous page]

and then a window in which to type a message.

See for yourself (should prove interesting): Go to
http://www.harpers.org/SubscriberCare.html and click on the 'subscriber care
page' link.

[Note: I just tried it again with a *very* new email address and it didn't
work. Again, I had never contacted Harper's or the folks who run the link
ever before via email or online.]
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)

Posting and You
http://www.trials-shack.co.uk/posting.html
 
Well, they didn't know me, which is OK ;-) Could this be Profile
information? Internet Options> Content> My Profile? I don't know how that
works, but I have no information in My Profile except for one e-mail
address.

Don
 
See for yourself (should prove interesting):
Go to http://www.harpers.org/SubscriberCare.html
and click on the 'subscriber care page' link.
Click to expand...


This link you mean?

< https://w1.buysub.com/servlet/CSGateway?cds_mag_code=PRS >

That's probably just the cumulative datamining that all your subscriptions
to all sites which use that service have done. If you have ever entered
all your personal information at one of them and *that* site's privacy
policy warned you that it was going to be shared this way you now can
see one of the consequences of having allowed it.

BTW there seem to be quite a few such sites to choose from:

< http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q="buysub.+com" >


I don't want to know. I know that I was once too loose with a lot
of my personal information. I can easily imagine that that much of it
is now linked to one or another of my E-mail addresses by such a
web service.


Robert
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....
No, it's not AutoComplete-related, Robert, and there was no form.
The prompt was simply to enter *any* email address you use and
hit Enter. In the resulting "Contact Us" window was then displayed:

Robear Dyer
[my real street address]
[town, state, zip]
[email address entered on previous page]

and then a window in which to type a message.

See for yourself (should prove interesting):
Go to http://www.harpers.org/SubscriberCare.html
and click on the 'subscriber care page' link.

[Note: I just tried it again with a *very* new email address
and it didn't work. Again, I had never contacted Harper's or the
folks who run the link ever before via email or online.]
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)

Posting and You
http://www.trials-shack.co.uk/posting.html
Click to expand...
 
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