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Anonymity Test :: Privacy Test

You can surf anonymously using a proxy server, SSH Tunnel or VPN Tunnel.  But many of the proxy servers available on the web are not anonymous at all -- even the ones that they say are anonymous!  And some of the sites that claim to determine whether your proxy server is anonymous can give out misleading or incorrect results!

IP : 38.103.63.58 (Whois)
Hostname :
User Agent : CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
Browser : - UNKNOWN
OS : - UNKNOWN
Port : 49793
Referer :
Real IP : (Whois)
Country : United States
Country Code : us
Country Flag : :: You can change it to Order Yours Now!
Language : en-us,en;q=0.5
Latitude : 38
Longitude : -97


For anonymous surfing, no web site that you visit (including this site and all the other on-line tests for anonymity) should be able to determine your IP address.

For complete anonymity, your proxy server should spoof all web servers (including this one) by concealing your true IP address -- your identity.  The proxy server can do this by giving its own IP address to the sites that you visit, but not giving your IP address.  The most anonymous of proxy servers will even not disclose that they are acting as proxy servers -- when using one of these, the web servers you visit will think the proxy server is surfing the web, not you.

You can determine whether a proxy is truly anonymous using this site.  But since a truly anonymous proxy server will spoof this site too, the test has two steps:

   1. Know the IP address that your Internet Service Provider ("ISP") gives you when you surf.  You can find this out by turning your proxy server off, navigating to this site, then recording the "Requested by IP" shown above.  (Some ISP's will give you one of many addresses, so this step can be more complicated.)

   2. Turn your proxy server on, then return to this site.  Anywhere above, do you see any IP address from your ISP?

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