What is an IP number and do you need to hide it?



Posted: Monday, February 09, 2009

by Randy Brook

The economies across the globe are growing too rapidly. The goal of transforming the world into a global village is on its way to accomplishment. In order to boost their revenues organizations around world use marketing tools excessively to reach each and every corner of the globe for the sake of promotion of their products. The target of these organizations is you, which is the customer.

Your IP address is of great value for multinational organizations across the globe. They use this IP address to keep a constant eye upon your activities. Your IP will indicate your geographical location and there fore will enable these marketing organizations to advertise you in a manner that best fits your cultural and socio-cultural make up. Most prominent examples of these marketing tools used by companies across the globe are Pop-Ups, Eye Blasters etc.

Whenever you open a webpage your IP address is exposed to the receiving network. The types of advertisements you explore or ignore and the duration of time that you spent on each page you visited, all transforms into valuable statistical data for these organizations to study your behavior towards advertisements. After a number of visits on a particular page a pattern of your browsing is obtained and advertisements are blasted upon you as per your responses in your previous visits, each time you visit the page again.

Such tactics used by these marketing master minds turns surfing on the internet a horrible experience as every time you open your browser window you have a large number of advertisements to deal with. However there are remedies to this torture. First and foremost what you should do is to block the appearance of Pop-Ups using the options available in your browser. What you should do next is to immediately close any advertisement eye blaster windows that appear immediately when you open a web page.

A huge number of websites contain smart files known as "cookies" that are automatically saved in your computer hard disk once your mouse pointer roll over them incidentally. These cookies are modern day digital spies that may not only keep an eye over your activities but may also steal useful information from your computer system. A simple way to get rid of this unwanted guest is to prevent its accumulation in your computer's memory. This can be easily done by deleting off any cookies and temporary internet files just by using the simple options of your web browser.

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