pauln Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 that when you go to a site on the internet, that site knows the previous site you just came from...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiser SET say Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 If you don't believe it just keep hitting the back button on your browser[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 If you don't believe it just keep hitting the back button on your browser[] Your browser caches your previous sites, not the site you are visiting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauln Posted April 16, 2007 Author Share Posted April 16, 2007 Not the point, though true as well. Go to a financial site and read the fine print in their privicy policy - some explicitly state that their site DOES know the site you were at just before coming there, but that this information is part of the other info that they do not make available for sale or marketing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seti Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Some sites monitor the previous site so they will no how it was reached/referred. George Orwell was an optimist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Arby's French Fries, now this. If you clean your cookies and temp internet files you can prevent that, of course you need to do it each time between jumping sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seti Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Prepare to be paranoid. At former employer I help purchase and put in place an amazing product call a Network Flight Recorder or NFR. We logged and kept database going back a year of all network traffic not the actuall traffic but what it was where it was going everything. It was very simple to find hackers and track the usuage of your pc without getting data off of the PC. This technology was a blackbox for the network and this was years ago. I assure you these are located at key points all over the interets infrastructure. There is no anonymity on the internet and it does not matter what you do to your computer because the network is the computer. George Orwell was an optimist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Spinner Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Anonymiser.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 It is a well kept secret...the cookies are one of the magical tracking methods used. Also your browser history...shhh do not tell. And your IP....plus there a few more secretive tricks.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seti Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 A friend of mine helped build one of the first sites like anonymiser he really like the technology but anonymiser has records too and that he felt was the flaw. I bet he still surfs the internet ssh'd to a computer in norway then ssh'd to a computer in france and even then only uses the lynx web browser in terminal lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mas Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Use Tor (Torpark) and portable Firefox on a USB flash key. If you want total anonymous surfing without an incredible slowdown, check out Tor's anonymizer service. Only the router will have a record of where you went and you walk away with all of the dynamic cache files on the key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungkiman Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 as a dial up guy, the speed is slow enough that i can often followalong with the information transactions. it's amazing how many times isee "googleanalytics.com" as the seemingly "last" transaction betweensites and transactions... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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