Anonymouse

[Rubyruse]

I think it is possible that someone could be visiting my site with Anonymouse (I know they use it on other sites).

http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html

But I haven't seen a hit from there. So I checked it out myself and went to my site (it is a blogspot blog) and surfed around a bit using Anonymouse. I checked the Statcounter and NOTHING registered.

I thought it should show something like this (per Anonymouse site):

IP 85.195.119.14
Host anonymouse.org
Browser & OS http://Anonymouse.org/ (Unix)

but there was no reference at all to a hit. I have been getting hits from other sources (even hidemyass.com )everyday.

What could be the explanation?

[webado]

The only way a visitor is undetected in Statcounter is if third party images are turned off - or all images fro that matter.

Turning off images from sites other than the one being visited ensures no third party tracking code would pick up the hit at all since the only way to communicate with the script on the server where stats get logged is via an img tag.

[Rubyruse]

Thanks for responding I probably sound foolish but I am still learning the ropes...

Would I have to turn off 3rd party images or would Anonymouse do that for me?

Because my hits on my site without Anonymouse register no problem but when I go through Anonymouse there is no trace of my visit.

I don't have any images on that blog so I tried another one that has images and StatCounter still did not register my visit when I used Anonymouse. And I could see the images.

It is very easy to use Anonymouse and it is free maybe you or someone else who reads this could experiment with it and see if StatCounter registers for them?

[webado]

That Anonymouse, as the name implies, serves to cover up your identity and obliterate your traces on the web and one way it will do that is by blocking third party images preciesely so that you may not be tracked by tracking code such as Statcounter.

The images being blocked are third aprty images, not the images from the site you visit. The counter code works through a third party img tag. It need not be an actual image - just the use of the img tag.