Internet and privacy

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If I understand it correctly, people who moderate sites can see not only the location of the visitors through their IP number, but also which site they were on previously. I think this sucks and I always use google as a middle-station between switching sites so it will show "logged on from google".

I once tried a free proxy service but it was slow and inconvenient. Is a proxy you pay for good and will it generate a random IP everytime you use it? I don't want to pay for a proxy just to have a permanent, mediocre connection from Turkey which makes people who trace me see my location at a certain spot in Turkey all the time.

I would really appreciate this because I hate being traced. Not that I'm paranoid but I'm a shopaholic and can generally visit some shopping sites 10-20 times a day just for repetitive AS relaxation, browsing through the products and dreaming about my next purchase. I don't want the moderators, because I know especially shopping sites keep detailed track of things like this, to see my obvious aspie behaviour, because to NT's it's considered "pathetic" to be that repetitive and even if they still give me gold memberships and sometimes personally signed cards and are happy with me as a customer and even though I will never meet any of these people face to face, I want to keep my integrity as much as possible.

Any qualified advice?

That's probobly working by referers, they only work if you click a link rather than use a bookmark, the firefox extension RefControl will allow you to block that, give it a test on the site you mentioned.

For proxys the best in the business is a combination of Tor and Privoxy both software you install and easy to get working together, its is slow beyond belief however. Really though your primary defence is that no one really cares what your up to.

I've seen places (no names.. that will address you by 'we have [whatever] in [the town you're from, or close to it] as soon as you visit the site.

Some spam and malware places tracking cookies on your system; those are the ones that want to know where you've been and where you're going. Something like Ad-aware should take care of most of that.

I use ad-aware regularly, well maybe sometimes I forget to use it for a month or two but I do have it.

I use linux and have firefox cache all cookies and what not in a ram drive. When I restart my computer, it all goes away. As well, I use several firefox plug ins that reduce bothersome behavior.

Using RefControl on Firefox will ensure that no referrals of websites you've been on are sent to anyone.