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Is there any way to prevent browser from revealing my IP address to
every site visited? I tried including it in Norton's private
information list which presumably alerts you when going out, but it
does'nt work. I'm not technically oriented, so any solution would
have to be simple. Thanks for any help.

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On fredag 3. oktober 2003, 16:15 Giuseppe Puccini tried to express an opinion:

> Is there any way to prevent browser from revealing my IP address to
> every site visited?

No. That is not posible in any way what so ever.

The reason is that when you connect to the site,
the server get a call from the IP adress you have, asking for a webpage.
It need the IP to know what computer to send the page back to.


It's like your postal adress.
The mail and packages needs an adress to be sendt to.


No adress, no mail or packages.
No IP adress, no webpages.

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> On fredag 3. oktober 2003, 16:15 Giuseppe Puccini tried to express an opinion:
>
> > Is there any way to prevent browser from revealing my IP address to
> > every site visited?
>
> No. That is not posible in any way what so ever.
>

You're incorrect. You may use a proxy service. There's many free proxies
out there, which are, at best, unstable.

You may choose to purchase an account with someone like www.cotse.net,
which I highly recommend.




> The reason is that when you connect to the site,
> the server get a call from the IP adress you have, asking for a webpage.
> It need the IP to know what computer to send the page back to.
>


Again, misinformation. Proxies will hide your IP address.



>
> It's like your postal adress.
> The mail and packages needs an adress to be sendt to.
>


This is correct. The proxy will act as an intermediary between you and
the website. Again, www.cotse.net does a wonderful job of this.


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Giuseppe Puccini wrote:

>Is there any way to prevent browser from revealing my IP address to
>every site visited? I tried including it in Norton's private
>information list which presumably alerts you when going out, but it
>does'nt work. I'm not technically oriented, so any solution would
>have to be simple. Thanks for any help.

Yes. Visit http://www.cotse.net/servicedetails.html

In article < >,
says...
> Is there any way to prevent browser from revealing my IP address to
> every site visited? I tried including it in Norton's private
> information list which presumably alerts you when going out, but it
> does'nt work. I'm not technically oriented, so any solution would
> have to be simple. Thanks for any help.
>


Use a proxy.

As stated in my other post, there's many free proxies available, however
they're unstable. I've found it best to go ahead and get a stable and
honest service such as www.cotse.net.

This will hide you from the websites gathering your IP address and other
information, such as the browser you're using, etc.




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Privacy at a click:
http://www.cotse.net

Q: How many Bill Gates does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None, he just defines Darkness? as the new industry standard..."

"...I see stupid people."

Solbu wrote:
> The reason is that when you connect to the site,
> the server get a call from the IP adress you have, asking for a
> webpage.
> It need the IP to know what computer to send the page back to.

Indeed, so the only solution would be using a proxy, which acts as a
go-between so that the webserver will see the IP from the proxy, and not
your IP.

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kroesjnov wrote:
> Indeed, so the only solution would be using a proxy, which acts as a
> go-between so that the webserver will see the IP from the proxy, and
> not your IP.

hmm, ng client did not display hte newest reply yet, sry for the double
answer.

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>
> As stated in my other post, there's many free proxies available, however
> they're unstable. I've found it best to go ahead and get a stable and
> honest service such as www.cotse.net.
>
> This will hide you from the websites gathering your IP address and other
> information, such as the browser you're using, etc.
>
>
Thanks for replying. Would use of a service such as cotse appreciably
reduce your speed of download/surfing by having to go through 2
servers? Also do you know of comparisons between Cotse and
Anonymizer? Thanks for your help.

In article < >,
says...
> >
> > As stated in my other post, there's many free proxies available, however
> > they're unstable. I've found it best to go ahead and get a stable and
> > honest service such as www.cotse.net.
> >
> > This will hide you from the websites gathering your IP address and other
> > information, such as the browser you're using, etc.
> >
> >
> Thanks for replying. Would use of a service such as cotse appreciably
> reduce your speed of download/surfing by having to go through 2
> servers? Also do you know of comparisons between Cotse and
> Anonymizer? Thanks for your help.
>



Your speed to normal web pages won't be dramatically decreased, however
your downloads of large files, such as zips, mpgs and such, you'll see a
difference if you're on a high speed internet account. Dialup, it won't
matter much.

Third party proxies will cause a speed decrease, such is life. However,
I use the Cotse Proxy for _all_ normal web site browsing, such as
reading the news, research, casual reading. When/if I need to download a
large file, I use a different browser not configured for the proxy and
download directly.

As for comparing Cotse to Anonymizer, there's no comparison. Cotse has
more email control including spam blocking, attachment blocking, 'per-
list' blocking, bayesian filtering, etc. Basically, Cotse Rocks!




--
Colonel Flagg
http://www.internetwarzone.org/

Privacy at a click:
http://www.cotse.net

Q: How many Bill Gates does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None, he just defines Darkness? as the new industry standard..."

"...I see stupid people."

Colonel Flagg wrote:
> In article <2Cffb.27747$>,
> says...
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>>On fredag 3. oktober 2003, 16:15 Giuseppe Puccini tried to express an opinion:
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>>
>>>Is there any way to prevent browser from revealing my IP address to
>>>every site visited?
>>
>>No. That is not posible in any way what so ever.
>>
>
>
> You're incorrect. You may use a proxy service. There's many free proxies
> out there, which are, at best, unstable.

I've got Squid going, it seems stable. I'm just learning about setting
up a proxy service with Apache. All the while I had it, and didn't
realize that it had mod_proxy included. I'll look thru that today, it'll
give me a good project for today. Then I can provide proxy services for
a couple of (trusted!) hosts, mainly for privacy's sake. But yes,
proxies allow you to go anonymous; there are some unsecured ones that
anyone can go thru. I have a list somewhere. With Squid, you can even
re-write the headers, if you so desire. So you may see,
HTTP User-Agent: Nintendo 64/0.01 (100% Compatible, CZ, MS-DOS 3.1)
or anything else!

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