Internet Privacy

[Scottland]

I've read a few articles recently, debating things like date being collected by search engines, amongst other web sites about its users, and of course the other week AOL released lots of data related to its users searching habbits.

Far be it for me to be paranoid by reading these articles - but I was wondering what programs are available if I didn't want some/all websites having access to mainly my IP?

I know of some sites that will route you through a proxy if you give it a url, but I was wondering if there are programs that run in the background and do a similar thing, with a black/white list also? That'll also work with IE & Firefox?

Or is it possible rather than routing through an anonymous proxy, simply to either not reveal the IP address, or to use a fake IP address instead?



PS - I don't want anything that could be considered illegal, or anything related to P2P - just internet browsing.


Cheers

 

[GM@N]

You can do this with Multiproxy

http://www.multiproxy.org/multiproxy.htm

 

[FishPolice]

I use Peerguardian2 & also used to use Cookiewall (think that's what it's called -at work at the mo). Reminds me I'd better reinstall it.

 

[Belly]

Far be it for me to be paranoid by reading these articles ......

Paranoics have real enemies too!

This Program is legal, I haven't used it myself but I was told that it works fine.


http://www.pcmesh.com/surf-anonymous.htm

You can check if it changes your IP Address by visiting this site (where it probes your ports (less painful than it sounds), shows you what information your browser is sending etc). It has been recommended by many of the popular computer magazines

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

 

[Scottland]

Cheers for the links I'll take a look when I finish work.

 

[Scottland]

Paranoics have real enemies too!

This Program is legal, I haven't used it myself but I was told that it works fine.


http://www.pcmesh.com/surf-anonymous.htm

You can check if it changes your IP Address by visiting this site (where it probes your ports (less painful than it sounds), shows you what information your browser is sending etc). It has been recommended by many of the popular computer magazines

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

I've had a go with that, which seems to be better than some others I've seen, but it doesnt seem to actually work. It tells me it's routed via a proxy, but when I check it still shows my real IP address?

I also tried HideIP, which worked but wasn't that good as I couldnt see a way to manually choose a proxy based on location, ping etc.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Torpark seems like it does exactly what you want to do though it's a browser itself.

 

[Scottland]

Torpark seems like it does exactly what you want to do though it's a browser itself.

It seems the only way to use it is with the included modified version of FF, really it needs to be a tray application so it would work with FF & IE together.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Yeah, that's what it is. It's a proxying browser.

 

[Greenlizard0]

I was looking at Torpark as well today, is it not worth downloading then?

I also use Opera as well...hmmm...

edit - I've just been reading their forums and it appears that nothing will be made for opera. Poo, I wish firefox was more stable on my system.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

The biggest bummer about Torpark (and Tor in general) is that some sites will try to examine your IP to determine which language it should display. When browsing with Tor I occasionally find sites rendering in German, Dutch, Japanese, etc when they have rendered English in the past. It's not a huge deal but it gets your attention.