See if your TRUE ip can be detected.. www.cloakfish.com?tab=proxy-analysis Im not using anything but im happy with my results! No one needs to know this info... (Only a banking site really needs to know i suppose)
I don't do anything illegal on my PC so I don't really care. I'm sure a peado is more than up to date with all this stuff though.
It can't find my city either, which is strange as all the GeoIP adverts can. I'll say this site is most likely useless outside the US.
It got my IP and the town I am in correct. But as I'm not trying to hide anything (at the moment ) I don't really care who can trace me
Trend Micro flags this site 'as confirmed this website can transmit malicious software or been involved in an online scam / fraud' - not saying trend micro are the be all and end of internet security but I'll not visit just in case
The nature of any site that determines whether your details are hidden automatically involves some form of scanning. Without it they would not be able to find out if your details are visible.
WhatsMyIP - More Info About You provides more details as does Privacy.Net's Analyze Your Connection. BrowserSpy can show what information websites receive from your browser and is worth using to test your online security setup.
So you're happy to have third parties like Google, Facebook or Paypal seeing which sites you visit, drawing their own conclusions and selling them on? Or for that matter, web metrics sites like Google (again, via Google Analytics), Nielsen NetRatings, Omniture or Comscore (used by Bit-Tech, Ars Technica and a whole host of news sites). How about advertisers who pay your ISP to gain access to your full online activity? All this tracking is present, is happening and is done to profit at your expense (either directly through paying higher prices via "special offers" online or indirectly by creating inaccurate profiles of you to sell to others). Advertisers have reacted to greater public awareness of cookie abuse by moving onto other methods of tracking like Flash local storage or browser fingerprinting (which cannot be defeated without using a proxy to change your IP address). This alone shows complete contempt for consumer choice. This is nothing to do with "illegality" (content that could be described as such would be more accessible via file-sharing than web browsing) but about whether your activities online should be private or not. Unless you take active measures to protect your online privacy (i.e. blocking cookies by default, filtering 3rd party content from websites and using a proxy), expect your details to be sold far and wide.
Your average joe visiting forums, youtube, etc has no reason to hide or have his connection go through servers all over the world so he can't be tracked. My internet history is pretty boring don't think statistic companys will get much from it.
Have you ever bought anything online - or plan to? Do you have accounts at any sites or forums? If so (and you have an account here at least) then you will be "of value", even if only as part of a bundle of several million others. Or do you think that advertisers and trackers go to the lengths they do, just for fun? Things are worse things in the smartphone world like CarrierIQ's spyware, and this should be a good indicator of how far advertisers are prepared to push the envelope.
