Maybe OT - Anon. Proxy

[Nils Kassube]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
> > John Dangler wrote:
> >> Thanks, Nils.  I've also done some googling and such, and found some
> >> info on anon-proxy, spike, and tor/privoxy.  Have you tried any of
> >> these?
> >
> > No - I don't have a need to surf anonymously. Browser settings of
> > usually javascript and java disabled and accepting any cookie as
> > session cookie only are good enough for me.
>
> Can you really browse the www with javascript disabled these days?

I think it just depends on the surfing habits. Most sites which are 
interesting to me are OK without javascript -- YMMV.

> And 
> what are you worried about anyway?  I've never understood what's gained
> by turning off javascript 

Its a privacy measure. I don't want the server to query internals of my 
machine like screen resolution, which seems to be possible with 
javascript.


Nils