Interesting. I'm behind on stuff, having come back recently from two weeks at Burning Man and in SF, and organizing my patent expiration party. I'm only skimming threads right now. --Declan On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 05:44:32PM -0400, George@orwellian.org wrote:
Previously I whined that USA.net was changing the URLs in received email to proxy through their server, meaning they had logs of all URLs you visited when clicking on hyperlinks while reading your personal email.
That this violates their own privacy policy.
For some reason Declan failed to report it. ;-) Analog film chemicals must be affecting his judgement.
New note: if you bookmark the URL in the personal email someone sent you, it bookmarks it at the USA.net address.
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Here is the resulting URL in the new window USA.net opens when you click on an URL in your email:
http://www.netaddress.com/tpl/Info/Popup?hidden___url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazo...
I just tried scooping it and using it directly, trying amazon here.
It worked.
Anyone have direct access to their own server logs? What cookies/referrals/misc is logged on the receiving system?
Continue clicking, and it's still via USA.net.
It looks like a free "anonymizer" to me.