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Introduction

There are two links that, together, constitute your anonymous connection to the Internet. The first is the link between your browser and GhostSurf; if your browser is connecting to GhostSurf at all, then GhostSurf will filter out your personal information; for information on testing this link, please read the Testing Proxy Settings article.

The second link runs between GhostSurf and the Internet. To test this, GhostSurf provides the "Test Connection" feature shown above. When you run a test on your connection, GhostSurf will verify that your personal information is being protected and that your IP is being masked when appropriate, using an independent service supplied by privacy.net. GhostSurf will display privacy.net's report in the "Test results" window.

Running the test

Click the "Run test" button; GhostSurf will send a test request to privacy.net. It will take up to a few minutes to collect all the report information from privacy.net; please be patient. When the report is complete, it will be displayed in the "Test results" window. Alternatively, you can go to privacy.net with your browser directly; click on the link in the Test connection window. We recommend that you use GhostSurf to run the test; it will check your privacy settings first to make sure information to privacy.net is blocked (and, therefore, that the test is valid).

When you run the test, you may be asked if you want to modify your privacy settings to block privacy.net. You should allow GhostSurf to make this change; if you don't, GhostSurf won't try to block information to privacy.net and the report will show that your personal information is being sent out (even though it may not be sent out for other sites you've blocked).

The report will tell you whether personal information is blocked, what exactly your browser will send to websites, and will give you a trace back to your computer. If anonymous hubs are working properly, the trace will be wrong. You want websites to think you are someone else; the trace will point back to the anonymous hub rather than back to you.