CDR: USA.net proxy: *** NOT! ****

[sunder]

George at 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.

<SNIP>
 
> 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.amazon.com%2F
> 

<SNIP>

> Continue clicking, and it's still via USA.net.

It's *NOT* anonymizing anything. DO NOT USE THIS IN PLACE OF AN ANONIMIZER!!!
All it does is log where you're going.  It doesn't actually proxy anything. It simply opens up two frames, one that says "You are
visiting a site outside of Net at ddress. Please close this browser to return to Net at ddress." and instructs your browser to go to
whatever embedded url you have. In this case Amazon.com.

Should you hover your mouse over the links in Amazon you won't see the netaddress.com url pop up. You'll see Amazon urls.

So while, yes, it does spy on what urls you visit, it does *NOT* proxy them, so it offers no protection!!!


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