I don't have a static IP.
Being not a knower when it comes to those things, I would assume that I am tracked by my IP address, so if this changes every time I access the internet, then I should be viewed as a different person by Google or anyone who has the potential to gain personal information about my internet activities.
Why is this assumption wrong and how will anyone track me as a single person, anyway?
Thanks in advance!
2007-12-26 00:14:49 · 4 answers · asked by tzanak 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
you are never tracked using the ip address in the first place,you are being tracked using the MAC of your network card.it is encoded in every transaction that you make online.
2007-12-26 00:26:10 · answer #1 · answered by pepot 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your IP address may or may not change each time you access the internet. It is more likely to happen if/when you use a modem. If you are using broadband then it likely will not. However, I suspect the sites are tracking you with the use of cookies rather than your IP address. Cookies can store a lot of information that is why most adware/malware softwares want to delete them. Most cookies are harmless these days because most sites only store your login id and the rest internally. But some sites are still stupid and put information in cookies that should not be there.
2007-12-26 08:26:27 · answer #2 · answered by yipeee2k 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unless your engading in some sort of commerce transactions web sites gennerally dont log your IP address. However if they do then they log your current IP and if you dont pay for a static IP then this can change, however gennerally they dont contrary to popular belief. But just surfing the Internet there isnt any "tracking" of sorts of individuals.
2007-12-26 08:47:31 · answer #3 · answered by Slick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
generally cookies hold the information that allows a site to recognise you. a cookie is a file on your computer that only the website can access ,
they basically write to it and read to it. I very small piece of data is all that is needed to identify you uniquely and the various things it wishes to remember can be stored on the websites database.
there will usually be 1 cookie per website, not all websites set cookies , it is up to them.
2007-12-26 08:54:50 · answer #4 · answered by ADad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋