How to Hide from Feedjit Live Traffic Feed

The Feedjit widget is a traffic feed that displays the geographic location of a website's visitors in real time. Although it does not reveal the IP address of a visitor, many people dislike the invasion of privacy at having one's city shown publicly.

If you would like to browse blogs and websites while remaining invisible to the Feedjit tracker, here are 5 tricks you can use.

Instructions

1. Using a proxy server to cloak your IP address can sometimes fool Feedjit. However, this does not always work with certain services, and besides, using proxy servers puts you at risk for other things.

2. Here's another trick: when you visit a webpage with the traffic feed tracker, click the 'view in real time' link. On the next page you have to option to block your IP address. This will erase records of your previous comings and goings to the site, but it won't always hide your future activities. Also, it only hides your activity on that particular site.

3. One way to temporarily hide from Feedjit on the entire internet is to disable cookies. Go to the Internet Options tab in your browser and disallow cookies from all websites. The only disadvantage is that now you cannot use certain websites that require enabled cookies, such as sites where you need to login.

4. Alternatively, you can go to the Feedjit website and check the option to ignore your browser. On their website, look under the live traffic feed and click 'options.' Then click 'ignore my browser.' Note that this will only ignore your current browser while you have cookies enabled. Once you clear your cache, Feedjit will see you again!

5. One last trick to hide from Feedjit is to manually change your location on the Feedjit website. Click 'options' under the live feed, and click 'change your location.' This will take you to a new page where you can re-associate your IP address to a different city. You can pick any city in the world--from Cairo, Egypt to Cairo, Kentucky.

   Essentially, you tell the Feedjit tracker that you live somewhere else. And now, every time you visit a site with the live traffic feed, it will record your visit as originating from that new somewhere. Again, this fix only lasts while your cookies are enabled. You'll have to do it again if you clear the browser's cache.