Idea to protect privacy of website's visitors
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:44 pm
Hi
This question is mostly directed at Giorgio Maone (though someone else with the knowledge can also answer).
I'm building a site with an effort to keep it as respectful to its visitors' privacy as possible.
I just had an idea and wanted to ask you if it makes any sense:
Whenever we visit any page online, the URL address is/can be recorded by our Internet Service Providers (or someone else intermediate) is that correct?
So I thought that instead of giving to my files revealing names, I can give gibberish. This way, my visitors ISPs would not record them visiting, for example, www.example.com/i-like-anal.html, but only www.example.com/gi4b23ris34.html (just an example, my site is not related to porn-well not that much)
I would like to hear what you think of this idea. Does it make sense? Are there any drawbacks?
Thank you.
This question is mostly directed at Giorgio Maone (though someone else with the knowledge can also answer).
I'm building a site with an effort to keep it as respectful to its visitors' privacy as possible.
I just had an idea and wanted to ask you if it makes any sense:
Whenever we visit any page online, the URL address is/can be recorded by our Internet Service Providers (or someone else intermediate) is that correct?
So I thought that instead of giving to my files revealing names, I can give gibberish. This way, my visitors ISPs would not record them visiting, for example, www.example.com/i-like-anal.html, but only www.example.com/gi4b23ris34.html (just an example, my site is not related to porn-well not that much)
I would like to hear what you think of this idea. Does it make sense? Are there any drawbacks?
Thank you.