JAP -- ANONYMITY & PRIVACY

Cookies and Web Bugs

Because recognizing a specific user based on the IP address alone is neither easy nor certain enough to employ for all internet users, additional mechanisms (for example so-called "cookies") are used.

Cookies make it possible to repeatedly identify a given web browser when a website is visited more than once, regardless of the user's IP address. Web servers use these mechanisms for purposes such as providing a personalized interface to the user.

On the other hand, web rings, among others, use the cookie mechanism to create a comprehensive profile of web surfers. They use a technique to follow the movements of the user over various different websites:
A certain advertisement banner, picture, or so-called "web bug" is placed on each website that takes part in the tracking. The web browser loads these objects from a central server of the web ring so that the user is recognizable by cookies, even though he never visited the web ring server.

A "web bug" is a small picture, usually 1x1 pixels, in the same color as the background of the website. That way, the user almost certainly won't recognize that objects from foreign servers are being loaded.

JonDo does not currently filter Cookies! That means that if you really want to anonymously surf the internet, you should:

deactivate cookie acceptance in your web browser,
regularly delete any saved cookies from your computer,
use additional programs such as Proxomitron or Muffin, which only temporarily accepts cookies, or

Stable Version
00.10.003

Beta Version
00.10.044

Status of available AN.ON services and information about them.

Announcement: important update Within the next two weeks, we will release an important update for JAP/JonDo The update is essential, as changes in the payment protocol will otherwise lead to broken connections. Moreover, an error has been removed that may lead to broken connections or erroneous data transfers. We also added some important improvements regarding usability and stability of the program. (2008-05-09)

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