Hal Finney writes:
I use Eric Murray's fine "cookie jar" privacy program when I am web browsing on my Linux system (http://www.lne.com/ericm/cookie_jar/).
Note that it'll work with a non-UNIX browser just fine. You do need to have access to a Unix host to run the cookie jar program itself, but you can tell your Windoze browser to use cookie jar as a proxy.... I run my Mac's browser through it.
It blocks cookies and advertisements via a very flexible config file mechanism. It also eliminates other privacy-revealing outgoing data, including Referer, and could be easily modified to play all kinds of games with Referer for the adventurous.
Sounds like an idea to go along with the User-Agent spoofing I added recently. What would make sense to use, other than sending "http://this/is/a/bogus/referrer/sent/to/mess/up/your/stats"? How about sending the current URL as Referrer? -- Eric Murray ericm@lne.com Privacy through technology! Network security and encryption consulting. PGP keyid:E03F65E5