Visit Websites Anonymously
June 2, 2008 – 4:04 pmNowadays almost every search engine keeps cached pages.
It looks like this:
That means that whenever the search engine crawls a web page, it keeps a copy of it and allows the users of the search engine to visit the page from its database, rather than from the original website.
Viewing cached versions of pages will keep you anonymous, because the webmaster will not be able to see that someone loaded a web page from his website, for the reason that you are actually viewing a web page that is hosted on the search engine server.
But be careful, Google and other search engines don’t keep cached versions of Pictures, Javascript or Flash. So if you view a web page that has one of these, it will attempt to load it from the original server. This will reveal your information for the webmaster to see.
Also, every link beyond the actual cached page you visited is addressed to the original website.
If you want to visit a website anonymously using the cached version of the page, remember to disable automatic picture loading, flash and javascript. You can do it manualy in your browser settings.
Firefox has a special extension for doing just that, named Passive Cache, Use it.
Another website you can use for viewing earlier versions of a website is the Internet Archive which also doesn’t cache picture, javascript and flash, But offers multiple cached versions.
2 Responses to “Visit Websites Anonymously”
really an interesting way
however, it leaks your it to google :p
By ZXZ on Jun 3, 2008
You are right. I did forget to mention that in my post.
Thanks.
By AnonWatch on Jun 3, 2008