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Originally Posted by Lee
Yeah I find this rediculous. NTL are effecively blocking my right to anonyimity 
You can connect to a proxy on other ports, but obviously port 80 is the most common. Considering the explosion in 'cleaning' tools for removing cookies etc; which trace your surfing habits, I'm surprised there haven't been more complaints about this. If people are wanting to stop web sites tracking them - hiding your IP address is a good way to do this, but with the transparent proxies - NTL are forcing your IP to be shown.
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Sorry - but you are wrong.
First of all IP addresses are a very poor way to track people as they can change at any time (very few people have long term static IP's). Many people also access via NAT so potentially thousands of machines all appear to have the same IP (we have 3000+ pc's at work that all appear as one IP on the net).
Secondly using a proxy is a poor way to hide your IP as the proxy server will pass the originating IP on to the server as an http variable anyway and more and more software looks for this and records it.
As Keyser point out above - ports 3128 & 8080 are the "standard" ports used for proxy servers, not port 80.
The standard method used to track people is cookies - you could disable these but many sites rely on them to actually work. So you could no longer use the site.
Why are you so worried about hiding anyway ?