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August 12, 2004
Thinking about web privacy
Go to this URL: Junkbusters: Alert on Web Privacy. It will tell you how much information your browser is sharing with web applications. How trackable you are on the web. I am thinking about all this because I just installed Tor which is a P2P network of onion routers that provides connection-oriented anonymizing. Hopefully it is a free version of the pay for Anonymizer service which operates private proxy servers. My experience with these cloaking services in the past is that they break too many sites and make surfing too hard. So many sites cookie you these days and require lots of openings in your browser to provide personalizization. Usually I don't mind this (Amazon, Ebay, Paypal, etc.) Many times I do. With my firewall I need to specify these settings on a site by site basis. That is too difficult also. What would be nice is if I could surf in stealth as default, but am asked/told when sites are looking for more information. And I don't mean just asking to accept cookies (the IE function). That is too low level an ask. Many sites cookie you 30 or 40 times. I want one ask and the computer to take care of the rest.
Posted by Martin at August 12, 2004 1:50 PM
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