From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 12:03:52 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: C2's Anonymizer in Reuters
Message-ID: <01I6Q712ED5S984P39@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
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	Not the most friendly of articles... but still pretty good. As usual,
edited to stay within fair use.
	-Allen

>   Reuters New Media
   
>   _ Friday July 5 12:28 PM EDT _
   
>Web Surfing Incognito

>   HOLLYWOOD - Ever felt like browsing without leaving those footprints
>   that site designers, your school and your employer are increasingly
>   inclined to harvest?
   
>   A service being offered at http://www.anonymizer.com purports to give
>   Web surfers the freedom to travel at will without leaving tell-tale
>   signs that they've been where they've been.
   
[...]

>   The visited site's layout and design can be altered, so you are
>   probably not seeing it in all its glory -- and it is displayed within
>   a field with hot buttons to take you back to the anonymizer site, a
>   FAQ or to make a bug report (like, for example, you've reached a site
>   which isn't preceded by the anonymizer URL).
   
>   Privacy is one of those issues veteran Netizens take very seriously --
>   it used to be called "anonymous" FTP after all. But many
>   sites now depend on demographics passively collected, rather than just
>   the number of hits, to attract advertisers.
   
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