How to Be Anonymous Online

Sometimes it pays to be a little secretive about who you are. Sometimes you don't want spammed. Sometimes you don't want advertisers or others to know who you are. Here are a few tips to surf anonymously.

Instructions

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   Use throw away emails. Most websites want an email address for various reasons. To avoid spam, set up a free email address at hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. If you really want anonymity, there are other services like mailinator.com, spambob.com, spamgourmet.com. Each one of these are completely anonymous. Check them out.

2. If you need to surf the web anonymously,such as looking for jobs so your boss won't know it, use either public proxy servers http://www.torproject.org/. At http://www.publicproxyservers.com.Anonymous proxy servers hide your IP address and thereby prevent unauthorized access to your computer through the Internet. hey do not provide anyone with your IP address and effectively hide any information about you and your reading interests. Besides that, they don't even let anyone know you are surfing thru a proxy server. Check them out.

3. If you are on a dating service and need an anonymous telephone number, that is even possible. Check out http://www.jangl.com,http://enterprise.jaduka.com/services, or http://www.numbr.com/.

4. Above all else--use your common sense! Assume everything you post will be on the front page of the NY Times and you should be safe. In some online communities it is better to use avatars than real photos. Make your screen names totally anonymous and you shouldn't have to worry!.

Tips & Warnings

• Be very careful what you say on social networking sites.