Piwik 0.5.5 out. New plugin: AnonymizeIP
I run piwik, the Open Source web analytics tool on the webschuur server to track some clients’ sites and this site.
Piwik released a new, mostly bugfix, version. But one particular new feature, the addon “AnonymizeIP” struck me as very usefull:
Anonymize visitor IP addresses to comply with your local privacy laws/guidelines.
Very little more to be found about this, unfortunately, so I dove into the code.
The file global.ini.php contains a setting
; number of octets in IP address to mask, in order to anonymize a visitor's IP address; if the
AnonymizeIP plugin is deactivated, this value is ignored; for IPv4 addresses, valid values are
0..4"
Setting this to e.g. 3 will mask the addresses, so that you store only the first IP-block is kept. For example, the IP adress from Google (one of the many) 74.125.77.147 will be stored as 74.000.000.000 when set to 3.
I have set this to 2. So I can still guess the approximate region, but can never find out who you are exactly. Great for privacy, yet still somewhat usefull for me.
How To Hide IP Address hmm I
How To Hide IP Address
hmm I guess the question in the end is if it’s possible to hide your ip.
as far as I know, proxy sites won’t work and will slow you down. The only solution I see is somthing like tor but I still don’t know if it would actually work…
I would like to completely hide my ip, mac address, etc. From hackers, tracking ads, websites trying to stel your identity, police, state authorities, curious girlfriends, and specially, being able to access web content not being filtered by my region! I guess that’s the main question actually… Search engines such as google are shadowy… I remember living in spain and asking a friend in portugal to do the same search and send me the results and there was a big diff!
well guys! give me some feedback on tor and, for example, privoxy… Any better alternatives?
take care you all!
Matt John
mcdba certified!