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Gelocation
Can anyone explain what Gelocation is. From what i hope it would mean was that websites would not be able to know where i lived with this off.Whether its on or off i still see my location come up in the side plane in Google each time i use and adverts relating to my town.
Originally posted by yngve:
The only way to work around that method is to use an anonymizing proxy.
Or maybe using Opera Turbo? While some advanced websites which are specially designed to show YOU your IP address can bypass Opera Turbo - the common way of tracking IP addresses used by all websites will only track the Opera Turbo Server IP address.
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Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:
While some advanced websites which are specially designed to show YOU your IP address can bypass Opera Turbo - the common way of tracking IP addresses used by all websites will only track the Opera Turbo Server IP address.
There is no magic way to bypass Opera Turbo
The server only has to look for the "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR" header sent by Opera turbo which reveals your IP Address/ISP.
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Originally posted by Krake:
The server only has to look for the "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR" header sent by Opera turbo which reveals your IP Address/ISP.
Fine but most websites do not look for this header - so 1 in 20 websites record your ACTUAL IP address when you are browsing with Opera Turbo.
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