Mayayana wrote:
"Chris" wrote

| It'll based on the IP address assigned to your router by ISP. Powering off
| and on the router might force it get a new IP, but probably not.
|

Do people have unique IP addresses? I was under
the impression that a cable connection is actually
part of a party line, with hundreds of other customers
sharing the same IP address. Many websites don't even
have their own IP address.

I'm on ADSL, and my previous ISP had a pool of around
3 million DHCP IP addresses. Powering off the modem and
powering on again, would give a different IP address.

Cable modems are different. They're not likely to be
as stealthy as my ADSL situation. The MAC address may
affect whether the cable modem even comes up.

With ADSL, the phone company has some idea what copper pair is
connected to your house, so you can't exactly plug
the modem in some place you're not supposed to, and
have it work. Your userID/password would be associated
with a single physical location and copper demarc.
If I walk into my neighbors house and use their
copper pair, the authentication process at the
telco will deny the connection. My networking
equipment could have any old MAC address I want,
without affecting authentication or operation.
I can switch modems, if they're both loaded
with the same userid/password pair in the
auto-login.

The ADSL can be set to log on and re-establish a
session, as soon as the power comes back. Mine is
set that way right now, but wasn't always that way.
Now that I'm on VOIP, it makes a bit more sense to
autolog it (so the phone can ring when I'm asleep).
There's nothing really amazing about this. Underneath,
it's using the same ole PPP that dialup modems used.
Just a different version (PPPOE or PPPOA or a ton
of other variants I didn't know existed).

*******

Deleting cookies is harder than it looks, because
of the variety of techniques used. Nobody really
sticks to just the "cookie file" when money is
involved. They'll use evercookie techniques. I
don't even think I could safely clean Chrome,
without breaking something. Other browsers are
a bit easier to clean. I have one browser where
clicking "remove private data" or whatever,
does nothing. And the cache is still fully
loaded. Nothing a hammer cannot fix :-)
So if I "want to read the newspaper", I use
the browser where cleaning is possible, and
remove whatever passes for evercookie.

I suppose you could try an incognito session
using the browser, but they must be able to
detect that. If any browser causes a $$$ site
to lose "control", there's got to be a back
door so they can regain control. Browsers
should always "bend" to support commercial
interest, not vice versa.

If a person wants to make a profession out
of this, there's always GreaseMonkey or
TamperMonkey. Maybe a file for one of those
already exists, to defeat the newspaper company
tracking attempts. You could try "NameOfNewspaper
GreaseMonkey TamperMonkey" and see what pops up.
All I managed to make work with those, is the
barest of "Hello World" programs, just to prove
what triggers it and how it works. It's outside
my pay scale to write actual useful scripts in .js.

Paul