Anonymous in the Internet? Don't let the title throw you. here is very important info to help everyone understand what happens when you use the great WWW, we all love.

Technical basics: Anonymous in the Internet?


When Internet pages are called up, particular technical processes occur that provide larger or smaller amounts of data. These are briefly described below.

Creating the connection:
When an address is entered into a browser, a connection is created between your computer and a DNS server, which converts the address into an IP address. This IP address is sent back to the browser, which then calls up this address. This process is called "name resolution". If the specified address of the web server actually exists, then a connection to this web server is then created. When doing this, the web server is informed of your IP address, since the web server needs to know where it is to send the response.

Page creation:
After a connection is created using the so-called 3-way handshake, the web server then sends the page you requested. However, further data is sent before this occurs:

Browser used
Language set
Time zone
Operating system
If you did not manually enter the address into the browser but clicked on a link, then the web server also receives information on the page from which you came (Referrer). However, these are not the only methods of acquiring data.

Cookies:
If Cookies are accepted and stored by your Browser then the page operator can read more information:

Unique identification number
Last visit
Navigation patterns
Products/Pages you have looked at
If the site requires a login, then the user name and password are sometimes stored here (sometimes even in PLAIN TEXT).

Important:
Whatever technique you use, they all have a decisive disadvantage! You must always rely on a third party! I.e. you are dependent on the trust / trustworthiness of this third party!

For this reason, anonymization programs should not be used for any type of Internet business! For example:

Bank business (online banking)
Purchasing (online shopping)
In the case of other services requiring a login, e.g. email retrieval, forum logins, etc., the use of anonymization programs should be very carefully considered!!

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