[tor-talk] help - some site DE-anonymize me

[diderot at autistici.org]

Hi Allen,

that seems a plausible explanation. I got a bit parano without reason :)

Thank you!

> zalmos is webproxy.  According to GeoIP, its servers are located in
> France.  So when you visit another website such as google.com thru
> zalmos, the other website (google.com) is probably giving you content
> and ads that are appropriate for the country in which the zalmos proxy
> server is located (French). That doesn't mean google or zalmos has
> traced you back thru Tor.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:15 AM,  <diderot at autistici.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I would like to report / discuss a strange thing. I run an up to date 
>> TorBB
>> on debian, having its security settings to max, the noscript whitelist 
>> is
>> empty, cookies & history cleared. Still, when accessing google.com via 
>> the
>> webproxy zalmos.com, with a circuit ending in a third country I will 
>> be
>> redirected to google.MYCOUNTRY and get ads displayed in MYLANGUAGE 
>> from that
>> same site zalmos.com
>> 
>> Normally, I would expect google.EXIT-SERVER-COUNTRY to be loaded and 
>> have
>> EXIT-SERVER-LANGUAGE ads.   So, the question is : since there seems 
>> evidence
>> that zalmos can at least de-anonymize my country, HOW is that 
>> possible??
>> What can I do? Do you experience the same thing?
>> 
>> Thank you
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