I'm wanting to sign up with a web site but not let it get my real
address or IP. For signup it requires that my browser accepts cookies.

I know a little bit about proxies, but do any of them handle cookies
in such a way as to fool the website into believing it's placing them
on my browser?

I can't use torrent, whatever it is.  

Thank you

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Miss Annie wrote:

> I'm wanting to sign up with a web site but not let it get my real
> address or IP. For signup it requires that my browser accepts cookies.
>
> I know a little bit about proxies, but do any of them handle cookies
> in such a way as to fool the website into believing it's placing them
> on my browser?

Some proxies have the ability to store and serve cookies on the proxy
rather than your machine. PHProxy has that ability, if you can find a
proxy that's running it and has the feature enabled. I'm not so sure
I'd trust them to properly disassociate me from those cookies though.

I'm sure there's probably dozens of locally run "Cookie Cutter" type
softwares out there that will fake the acceptance of cookies while
never actually letting the get all the way to your browser too. In fact
many browsers have the ability to selectively accept and/or delete
cookies on a per-site basis. Firefox's NoScript I believe does this, if
you happen to be using that browser. Opera has "native" support for
per-site cookie management, although some people find it a bit
confusing as it's implemented. In any case, I think it would be
preferable to manage cookies locally if you ahve to allow them. That
way you know for sure they're deleted when you no longer need them.

> I can't use torrent, whatever it is.  

Are you referring to Tor (The Onion Router)?

Tor won't do anything with cookies one way or the other. But ti will
make you anonymous and help make any cookies you get "useless". If you
have a real reason to worry about cookies in the first place, you may
want to reconsider using any sort of one-hop proxy at all. Cookies or
not, if someone wants you bad enough a proxy isn't much protection.

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Miss Annie wrote:
> I'm wanting to sign up with a web site but not let it get my real
> address or IP. For signup it requires that my browser accepts cookies.
>
> I know a little bit about proxies, but do any of them handle cookies
> in such a way as to fool the website into believing it's placing them
> on my browser?
>
> I can't use torrent, whatever it is.  
>
> Thank you
>
If you only want to stop the website getting your details you could try
http://the-cloak.com/anonymous-surfing-home.html
It says 'anonymity' on there unfortunately, but if it is not critical,
it should do the job. The website would need to compromise the-cloak.com
or otherwise get your details from them. They will handle any Java and
cookies for you.

Andy

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On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:46:29 +0000 (UTC), Miss Annie wrote:

> I'm wanting to sign up with a web site but not let it get my real
> address or IP. For signup it requires that my browser accepts cookies.
>
> I know a little bit about proxies, but do any of them handle cookies
> in such a way as to fool the website into believing it's placing them
> on my browser?
>
> I can't use torrent, whatever it is.  
>
> Thank you

Way back there was a small program written called anonymous cookie (1 mg).
It runs on your system and gives any sites you visit a fake cookie when you
have your own cookie settings set to refuse cookies.

If you want it I'll e-mail it to you, you can contact me at: traveller66 at
safe-mail dot net.

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On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, traveller 66 <noreply@nym.alias.net> wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:46:29 +0000 (UTC), Miss Annie wrote:
> 
>
>Way back there was a small program written called anonymous cookie (1 mg).
>It runs on your system and gives any sites you visit a fake cookie when you
>have your own cookie settings set to refuse cookies.
>
>If you want it I'll e-mail it to you, you can contact me at: traveller66 at
>safe-mail dot net.

Used it many many years ago.
Supported Platform: Windows 95/98/NT/Mac 7.1+
http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/Mac/luckcoki.htm

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