[OU] How to anonymize Opera?

[Bessenyei Balázs]

The site is specialized on provideing "anonimizer" software, so don't be  
supprised with the "results". The other browsers are sending identically  
detailed user agent information. Visit the site with different browsers,  
you get similar results. This information is reguired by websites to serv  
the correct page to you, also for web statistic purposes as well. You can  
try to change this, but in this case you can expect sever site rendering  
issues. Again this information is not sent to comprimize your privacy, but  
to provid you with enjoyable browsing experince.  Unfortunyatly, this  
information can be used for browser tracking and advertiser sites as well.  
But there are other ways to track your online activities and identifly  
your browser (like the page rendering technologies it supports) and  
operating system. This requires mostly javascripts, so don't forget to  
disable them as well and enjoy the results.

If you realy want to do this, you can use their software (which is basicly  
a TOR like network, just like OperaTor) or use a proxy sever (like  
Privoxy) to remove the information. But don't be supprised if some sites  
will behave undeseiredly. And remember the javascript will still tells  
everything about your browser, so for more privacy disable it as well. F12  
and disable javascript and your privacy will be safe with the proxy server  
of course.

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:37:10 +0200, macintoshzoom  
<macintoshzoom at lavabit.com> wrote:

> Yes, a similar approach is what use, but there are lots of
> privacy/anonymity issue yet that those doesn't know how to resolve.
> The worst one is that Opera sends its proper user-agent "opera 9.xx"
> when required via https, and says the OS you are running, all that
> without your permission nor giving you any clue that this it's
> happening, nor giving you the option to address it if you want.
> Someone said in this mailist (I los its mail!) that this is forged in
> opera code binary, perhaps they do this for propaganda and statistics,
> as they are now paid (seems) by google and advertised links that detects
> this way that the request is from an opera browser.
>
> Sengor wrote:
>> Have you seen http://archetwist.com/en/opera/operator
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:22 PM, macintoshzoom
>> <macintoshzoom at lavabit.com> wrote:
>>> How to anonymize Opera?
>>>
>>> The https://www.jondos.de/en/anontest test site from JONDO (formerly
>>> Jap) anonymizer network warns me about lot of issues on my opera, the
>>> worst one is that it informs about the browser and my OS (even when
>>> using the opera built-in useragent tweaker, set to firefox or  
>>> explorer).
>>> This useragent tweaker don't works for https.
>>>
>>> Some one told in this mailist that I should reverse engineer opera
>>> (hexdump editor? to tweak something, but i lost my mailbox recently.
>>>
>>> Any help welcome!
>>>
>>> Mac.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Unsubscribe: mailto:opera-users-request at opera.com?subject=unsubscribe
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>



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