anonymous Web surfing

An anonymous surfing service can make a user feel more secure on the Internet, but it doesn't permit a site to often the visitor personalization. This means that the a site cannot tailor its content or advertising to suit the individual user. SafeWeb and the Anonymizer are the most commonly used such services. Lucent's Bell Labs created its own version, called Lucent Personalized Web Assistant (LPWA), as did the Naval Research Labs, whose project was called Onion Routing.

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More resources from around the web: - The Naval Reseach Lab offers information about the Onion Router project. - SecuriTeam.com provides an article, "Do web anonymizers really work?"

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