Anonymous Web Browsing

[Mark Grant, M.A. (Oxon)]

On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

> These are "web proxies," and searching on this should produce some
> information to answer your questions.

There's a problem with that. I've noticed several pages recently with 
hidden mailto: links that aren't marked as such. So you can be happily 
browsing away through a web proxy only to click on a link and have your 
real id mailed to the site's owners. As people have mentioned, this is 
even worse with Javascript.

Note to Netscape people: Is it possible to have an option that will *always*
pop up a mail window and request confirmation before mail is sent out? Or
disable mailto altogether? It would be a lot easier than binary editing 
the executable to remove all the mailto strings...

Or does it exist? I can't find it.

	Mark