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How to prevent my information from being accessed by webpages q 02-21-2008
Posted by q on February 21, 2008, 3:07 am
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Hello - I have visited a few sites that somehow have information about what
city I live in. I have cleared autocomplete and history and cookies and
offline files, and when I go back they still greet me with the city I live
in. How do they get that info? How do I stop it?
Running IE 6
Thanx



Posted by mak on February 21, 2008, 6:06 am
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q wrote:
> Hello - I have visited a few sites that somehow have information about what
> city I live in. I have cleared autocomplete and history and cookies and
> offline files, and when I go back they still greet me with the city I live
> in. How do they get that info? How do I stop it?
> Running IE 6
> Thanx
>
>
let me guess,

Greater Victoria, BC



M

Posted by Sebastian G. on February 21, 2008, 7:07 am
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q wrote:

> Hello - I have visited a few sites that somehow have information about what
> city I live in. I have cleared autocomplete and history and cookies and
> offline files, and when I go back they still greet me with the city I live
> in. How do they get that info?


GeoIP

> How do I stop it?


proxying

> Running IE 6


And you don't consider this as a much bigger problem?

Posted by q on February 22, 2008, 1:30 am
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Thanks for the mention about IE6. I upgraded to ie7 last night and still no
good.I'm going to check out Firefox.
Thanx

>q wrote:
>
>> Hello - I have visited a few sites that somehow have information about
>> what city I live in. I have cleared autocomplete and history and cookies
>> and offline files, and when I go back they still greet me with the city I
>> live in. How do they get that info?
>
>
> GeoIP
>
>> How do I stop it?
>
>
> proxying
>
>> Running IE 6
>
>
> And you don't consider this as a much bigger problem?



Posted by Todd H. on February 22, 2008, 1:37 am
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> Thanks for the mention about IE6. I upgraded to ie7 last night and still no
> good.I'm going to check out Firefox.

FYI, Firefox won't keep websites from knowing your geographic
location. But it's a wise thing to check out for other security
reasons.

To thwart geolocation based on your ISP's IP address, you'll need to
use a proxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server

Something like tor, or ghostsurf,

http://www.torproject.org/
http://www.tenebril.com/consumer/ghostsurf/

There is a speed penalty.


--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

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