Are You Sure You're Anonymous?
Here's a little note on something *We* find amusing.
We have a visitor, we shall call him Mr. Anon, for that is what he wants to be.
The problem with Mr. Anon is that he uses the free version of anonymouse.
Every time Mr. Anon comes to visit us his referrer on Statcounter shows us his IP and that he came to our page via Anonymouse. This is how we know he wants to be anonymous. Poor guy.
There are some pretty good proxies out there and there are some that are transparent. Transparent, as in, I see you anyway... and worse still, some show you are using them, so not only is it 'I see you anyway', it's 'I see you... and know you are trying to hide from me'. Talk about getting caught with your hands in your pants.
Embarrassing. We usually just look away.
Here's a word of advice on Proxies.
You need to test them on your own site before venturing out on the Internet thinking you are anonymous or you may find that you have a sad case of 'The Emperor's New Clothes'.
It is wise to have more than one tracker.
Here are the ones we recommend.
Statcounter:
Good for seeing which pages people are looking at.
That's how we track our most popular pages for the sidebar.
Sitemeter:
Less detail, but it picks up a lot of the hits that Statcounter misses.
There is also a Free Beta Tracker available to BlogExplosion members.
The important thing about having the trackers on your site is not so much because you are in love with your statistics, although we highly recommend making love to your counter as often as possible, it reminds *us* that we are loved, who could ever ask for more? But you need a place to check your proxy to make sure it is not transparent. Since most sites use at least one of these three counters it is wise to check your anonymity on all three. Then you can do as we do and porn surf to your heart's content.
For surfing without changing your Internet configuration to use a proxy we recommend these:
Mr. Privacy
Hujiko
We have tested them and found that for free surfing there is a limit on bandwidth, so you can only see a couple of pages then you are kicked off, but for popping in on your site to check for comments from work they do come in handy.
Happy Surfing Everyone!
HIM/HER
We have a visitor, we shall call him Mr. Anon, for that is what he wants to be.
The problem with Mr. Anon is that he uses the free version of anonymouse.
Every time Mr. Anon comes to visit us his referrer on Statcounter shows us his IP and that he came to our page via Anonymouse. This is how we know he wants to be anonymous. Poor guy.
There are some pretty good proxies out there and there are some that are transparent. Transparent, as in, I see you anyway... and worse still, some show you are using them, so not only is it 'I see you anyway', it's 'I see you... and know you are trying to hide from me'. Talk about getting caught with your hands in your pants.
Embarrassing. We usually just look away.
Here's a word of advice on Proxies.
You need to test them on your own site before venturing out on the Internet thinking you are anonymous or you may find that you have a sad case of 'The Emperor's New Clothes'.
It is wise to have more than one tracker.
Here are the ones we recommend.
Statcounter:
Good for seeing which pages people are looking at.
That's how we track our most popular pages for the sidebar.
Sitemeter:
Less detail, but it picks up a lot of the hits that Statcounter misses.
There is also a Free Beta Tracker available to BlogExplosion members.
The important thing about having the trackers on your site is not so much because you are in love with your statistics, although we highly recommend making love to your counter as often as possible, it reminds *us* that we are loved, who could ever ask for more? But you need a place to check your proxy to make sure it is not transparent. Since most sites use at least one of these three counters it is wise to check your anonymity on all three. Then you can do as we do and porn surf to your heart's content.
For surfing without changing your Internet configuration to use a proxy we recommend these:
Mr. Privacy
Hujiko
We have tested them and found that for free surfing there is a limit on bandwidth, so you can only see a couple of pages then you are kicked off, but for popping in on your site to check for comments from work they do come in handy.
Happy Surfing Everyone!
HIM/HER
posted by DESIRE X at 8:17 AM
2 Comments:
i may be ignorant but i am lost on this post what do you mean by proxies and are you saying that when i visit a page you can find out my name?
Not your name, Jay, however, programs like Statcounter show the SP/domain where the hits are coming from. So an ISP from GA would stand out. I just for Proxify.
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