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C2's Anonymizer in Reuters
Not the most friendly of articles... but still pretty good. As usual,
edited to stay within fair use.
-Allen
> Reuters New Media
> _ Friday July 5 12:28 PM EDT _
>Web Surfing Incognito
> HOLLYWOOD - Ever felt like browsing without leaving those footprints
> that site designers, your school and your employer are increasingly
> inclined to harvest?
> A service being offered at http://www.anonymizer.com purports to give
> Web surfers the freedom to travel at will without leaving tell-tale
> signs that they've been where they've been.
[...]
> The visited site's layout and design can be altered, so you are
> probably not seeing it in all its glory -- and it is displayed within
> a field with hot buttons to take you back to the anonymizer site, a
> FAQ or to make a bug report (like, for example, you've reached a site
> which isn't preceded by the anonymizer URL).
> Privacy is one of those issues veteran Netizens take very seriously --
> it used to be called "anonymous" FTP after all. But many
> sites now depend on demographics passively collected, rather than just
> the number of hits, to attract advertisers.
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