Do you know of a program that lets one surf the net without leaving traces on the sites where they surfed? For example, not leaving your isp info on a sites counter/tracker?


Blondie

Its been along time sence I had played with programs to hide your tracks, I can't even think of them of the top of my head. Have a look at Ano nymouser's.

If it is only counter/tracker , banner/advertizing and such sites you want to hide your Id info from, if you use IE you can use your Restricted Sites zone. Here is a site with and about Restricted Sites List.

I personally use the host file with currently 28,751 sites completely blocked from my pc with an app called SpyBlocker.

Gotta go, gotta take my boy out now

Thank you for the links. I will check them out.


Blondie

Do you know if there is html that can be added to a site to prevent web crawlers from viewing the site? Something that will prevent a site from showing up on serch engines?

Blondie

I don't know how the "web" link thing got in there, sorry! Please delete it. I didn't log in before posting the message so I can't! This tech stuff is driving me nuts!


Blondie

I see it if I'm NOT logged in and don't see if I'm logged in !

I'm selling my computer and going back to reading books. I know what to expect from books.

Or perhaps I will dye my hair black and take a computer class....

..lol...Is it "your" sponsored links doing that?

It happend again with another "key" word.

Quote: Is it "your" sponsored links doing that? It happend again with another "key" word.

O no we're not back to that crap again
Tho it was simple to over come last time nw54 used it, once you gathered up a list of the key words used

I unblocked access to vibrantmedia.com and now am seeing the sponsored links , a list of 250 keywords

testing...

These are sponsored keywords: anti-virus software, update and windows xp

and these are not: anti-virus software, update and windows xp

Hi Blondie

1. If you have your own top level domain you can use a file called "Robots.txt" which search engine spiders always look for 1^st when crawling tho sites, its a text file where you can allow or disallow spiders from entering any sub domains or from logging selected pages and even ban selected search engine spiders from crawling your site.

2. Using the robots meta tag in your header of all your pages, tho its now ignored by few (or alot) of search engines as of a few years ago (if I remember correctly) but its a tag I have and will always will use and does seem to work (not 100%) with the many search engines I've crawled to checked where I am and what pages and images they have from my sites.