Tool to Help Protect your Anonymity on the Internet.
Written: Jan 23 '02
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Pros: helps preserve your anonymity and privacy on the internet.
Cons: free service limited somewhat.
The Bottom Line: anonymizer.com features a free anon web surfer.
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| soothsayer's Full Review: Anonymizer |
When you surf the web, you usually leave behind various information about yourself such as IP address, type of browser and operating system you use, and what you did on the Internet. And despite whatever you do to hide yourself, there is no such thing as complete anonymity. You are recorded on somebody’s activity logs the very moment you dial your phone company. That is where Anonymizer comes in.
Anonymizer is an anonymous proxy between you and the website you visit. Anonymizer blocks certain identifying information about you from filtering out to the websites you visit. The only information being recorded is what you did on the website you visited. And while anonymous to websites, you are not anonymous to Anonymizer.com. Your identity is recorded in case of trouble, like when a law enforcement agency comes a-knocking.
Anonymizer.com offers three web services, the Anonymizer Secure Tunneling, The Anonymizer Dialup Access, and Anonymous Web Surfing. The Anonymous Web Surfing service is the most convenient to use for casual anonymity and privacy. It comes either as a paid subscription option that gives you unfettered access to the web, and the free option that lets you surf, but blocks access to many popular, and heavily traveled sites on the net such as ezboard.
The free service is pretty good, it is configured to block incoming javascripts and cookies, and doesn’t leak out your ISP information. As for sitemeters, your visit will not be recorded, the only flipside is you cannot login to various places like Epinions.com. The Anonymizer free service is located at www.anonymizer.com, just enter a URL to begin surfing anonymously.
Recommended:
Yes
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